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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.

Ben Folds

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 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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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
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
Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
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
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
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
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
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
I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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Block Coffee
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Earth Eyes People
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Heard Lying Often Spoke
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere

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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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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