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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

Ben Folds

It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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Numbers Pressure Real
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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Average Business Overtones Public
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
BEN FOLDS

Art Inspired Pops
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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Block Coffee
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
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
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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Enough Grow Up Screen Teenager
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
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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Adelaide Country Home
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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Couple Kings Years
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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Group Intelligent Monster
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
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

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

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