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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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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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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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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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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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.
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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.
