The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
BEN FOLDSThe 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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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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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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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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