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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

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
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 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
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
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
The 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.
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List Sick Song
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
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
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
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
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
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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 do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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Art Mindset Trying

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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