Ben Harper Quotes
-
You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
-
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
-
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
-
I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
-
Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg-that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
-
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
-
I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.
-
I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.
-
I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.
-
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
-
My head works in music, so there's always music there.
-
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
-
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
-
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.
-
I love being on the road, I love playing.
-
They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
-
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.
-
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
-
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
-
We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
-
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.
-
Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
-
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.
-
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.