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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.
Ben Folds
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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
Composer
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Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
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