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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.

Ben Folds

I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
BEN FOLDS

Fringe Nice Way
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
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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Divorce Mirrors People
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
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.
BEN FOLDS

Anything People Person Strange
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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Hands Independent Mind
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
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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 way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDS

Feels Want Withholding
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
BEN FOLDS

Church Musician Writing
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

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