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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.

Ben Folds

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
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good 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
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
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Nice People Thinking
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Learn People Rate
I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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Alcohol Thinking Writing
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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Every Furniture One Piano Room The Piece
I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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Average People Vintage
I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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Closets People Want
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
Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Feelings Found Someone
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 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
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Kings Out Stupid Work

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