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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
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
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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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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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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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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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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 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 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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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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