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Ben Folds

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
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
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDS

Men Thinking Years
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
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
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
And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Happy Love Reason Want
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDS

Feels Want Withholding
You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
BEN FOLDS

Letting People Stuff
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.
BEN FOLDS

Closets People Want
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
BEN FOLDS

Always Myself Record Times Twice
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.
BEN FOLDS

Anywhere Blue Buddle People State
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
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.
BEN FOLDS

Cards Scotch Writing
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Coast Headed Nowhere
Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Almost Fold Good Writing

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