Ben Harper Quotes
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Those women are the true divas. They're amazing performers, whom I've listened to for years. These are the people who've inspired me to sing, so it's flattering that I'm being compared to them. But I have a lot of hard work to do first.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I like getting a tan, so if I'm lying on the beach, I want to get as much skin out as possible.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
