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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

Ben Folds

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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
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
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Kids Rocks Roll
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.
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People Thinking Writing
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
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
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 feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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Adelaide Country Home
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
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
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
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

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