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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

Ben Folds

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
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
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Kings Out Stupid Work
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 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
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
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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
Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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Enough Grow Up Screen Teenager
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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might Past Redneck
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
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
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
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.
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Director Song 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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