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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

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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Cheating Lying Mean
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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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Closets People Want
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.
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People Thinking Writing
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Gay Looks Men
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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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Experience Share Something Thinking
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
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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Average Business Overtones Public
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 start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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Song Writing Years
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
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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Bars Email Writing

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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