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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.

Ben Folds

Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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Numbers Pressure Real
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
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
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
White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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People Song White
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
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 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
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
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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Couple Sleep Sorry
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
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
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
In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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Records Self Sound
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

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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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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