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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.

Ben Folds

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Records Sound Want
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
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.
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Easier Nice People
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
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
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
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines 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.
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List Sick Song
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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.
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Confession Fantasy Song
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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Mistake Something Thinking

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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