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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.

Ben Folds

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Both Piano Play
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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Hands Independent Mind
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Day Love Valentines Way
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 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 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
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
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
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Records Sound Want
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Director Song Thinking
I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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Couple Kings Years
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence

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