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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.

Ben Folds

If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
BEN FOLDS

might Past Redneck
White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
BEN FOLDS

People Song White
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
BEN FOLDS

Art Inspired Pops
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
BEN FOLDS

Divorce Mirrors People
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.
BEN FOLDS

Enough Grow Up Screen Teenager
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

Fighting Job 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.
BEN FOLDS

List Sick Song
I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
BEN FOLDS

Art Mindset Trying
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.
BEN FOLDS

Cards Scotch Writing
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

Experience Share Something Thinking
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDS

Feels Want Withholding
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
BEN FOLDS

Heard Lying Often Spoke
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
BEN FOLDS

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.
BEN FOLDS

Average Business Overtones Public
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
BEN FOLDS

Coast Headed Nowhere

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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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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