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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.

Ben Folds

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
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’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
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Letting People Stuff
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
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
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
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
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
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
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
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

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