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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.

Ben Folds

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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
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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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The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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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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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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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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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
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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 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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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 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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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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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
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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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I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
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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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