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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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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
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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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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 cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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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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 divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
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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 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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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.
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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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