Ben Harper Quotes
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
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This is the last time I'm asking you this,Put my name at the top of your lips.This is the last time I'm asking you whyYou break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.
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I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
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My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.
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I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
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Our vulgar delight in American vulgarity.
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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
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I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks.
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
