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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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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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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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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
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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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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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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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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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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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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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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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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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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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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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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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 nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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