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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

Ben Folds

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
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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
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
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
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
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
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
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
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
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
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.
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Girlfriend People Sleep
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 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
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

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