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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Ben Folds

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.
BEN FOLDS

Average Business Overtones Public
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.
BEN FOLDS

Ask Lyrically Modest Somehow Vulnerable
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
BEN FOLDS

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

Failure Married Parent
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
BEN FOLDS

Bars Email Writing
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

Confession Fantasy Song
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
BEN FOLDS

Gravity Song Way
I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
BEN FOLDS

Song Writing Years
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
BEN FOLDS

Both Piano Play
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
BEN FOLDS

Kings Out Stupid Work
I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
BEN FOLDS

Fringe Nice Way
I feel like a quote out of context.
BEN FOLDS

Context Feels Folds
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
BEN FOLDS

Gigs Pain White
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
BEN FOLDS

Nice People Thinking
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.
BEN FOLDS

Animal Class Piano
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

Honesty Over Want You

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