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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

Ben Folds

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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Cheating Lying Mean
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
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
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
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
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
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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
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.
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Experience Share Something Thinking
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 you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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
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
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 do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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Mistake Something Thinking
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play

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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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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