Ben Harper Quotes
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
