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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 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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Feels Want Withholding
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
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
I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Earth Eyes People
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
You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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Albums Beats Unique
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
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
Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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Sarcastic Singing Writing
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Fringe Nice Way
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
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good 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 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 look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Gay Looks Men

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