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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
Ben Folds
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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
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Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
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Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.
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If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is I just want to know how she feels about it.
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I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.
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With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.
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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.
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