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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.

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 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.
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Bars Email Writing
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 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.
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Song Writing Years
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
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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Church Musician Writing
The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Gravity Song Way
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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Albums Beats Unique
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
I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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Art Mindset Trying
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
There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Art Inspired Pops
I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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Average People Vintage

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