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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.

Ben Folds

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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Mistake Something Thinking
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 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
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
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
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Letting People Stuff
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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Cards Scotch Writing
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
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
Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
BEN FOLDS

Anywhere Blue Buddle People State

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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