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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.

Ben Folds

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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Honesty Over Want You
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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Business Happens Music Sometimes
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Art Inspired Pops
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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Proud Simplicity Writing
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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Gigs Pain White
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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Every Furniture One Piano Room The Piece
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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Feels Want Withholding
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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Albums Beats Unique
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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.
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Cards Scotch Writing
I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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Average People Vintage
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.
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Animal Class Piano
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
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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Always Myself Record Times Twice

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