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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

Ben Folds

Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
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
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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
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
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
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.
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Art Mindset Trying
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Art Inspired Pops
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
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
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
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Failure Married Parent
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
The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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Animal Class Piano
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
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
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
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
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
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
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
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
I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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Closets People Want
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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Heard Lying Often Spoke

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