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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

Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing
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
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
Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
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
I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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Always Myself Record Times Twice
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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Proud Simplicity Writing
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 feel like a quote out of context.
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Context Feels Folds
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Kings Out Stupid Work
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
I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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Anything People Person Strange
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
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

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