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.
BEN FOLDSThe nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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.
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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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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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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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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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