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I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

Ben Folds

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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Fighting Job Song
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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.
BEN FOLDS

Gigs Pain White
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
BEN FOLDS

Cards Scotch Writing
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
BEN FOLDS

Fringe Nice Way
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.
BEN FOLDS

List Sick Song
I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
BEN FOLDS

Closets People Want
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
BEN FOLDS

Gravity Song Way
I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
BEN FOLDS

Easier Nice People
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDS

Feels Want Withholding
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
BEN FOLDS

Learn People Rate
Im really good at writing almost hits.
BEN FOLDS

Almost Fold Good Writing
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.
BEN FOLDS

Anything People Person Strange
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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Couple Kings Years
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.
BEN FOLDS

Director Song Thinking
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
BEN FOLDS

People Thinking Writing

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

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