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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.

Ben Folds

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
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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
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
Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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Couple Sleep Sorry
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
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’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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Mind Needs Realizing
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
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
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
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
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
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing

I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.

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