Ben Harper Quotes

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

Ben Harper

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• Songwriting

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• I know what to do and I go and execute.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Know
  • Go
  • Execute

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

  Larry King
  • Being
  • Broadcaster

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Ignorant

• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Age

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Conscience

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Song
  • Church

• I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

  

  Jon Fishman
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.

  

  DJ Snake
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fans

• They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Help
  • Me

• Language is a form of organized stutter.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Stronger
  • Songwriting