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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

I feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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Confession Fantasy Song
I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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Block Coffee
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
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
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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Church Musician Writing
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
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 way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
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

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