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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.

Ben Folds

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
I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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Mind Needs Realizing
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
In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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Records Self Sound
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
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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
Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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Sarcastic Singing Writing
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
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.
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Anything People Person Strange
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
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
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds

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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