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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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
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
It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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Hands Independent Mind
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
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’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
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
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
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.
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People Song White
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
BEN FOLDS

Girlfriend People Sleep
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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

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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