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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

Ben Folds

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.
BEN FOLDS

Art Mindset Trying
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 drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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Cards Scotch Writing
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
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
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
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
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
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 have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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Done Energy Sometimes
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
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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
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
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 reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

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