I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDSI 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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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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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