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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.
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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away.
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
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The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
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Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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