Ben Harper Quotes
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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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Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.
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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.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend...
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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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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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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.
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.
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Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.
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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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If I don't have the potential to write in different styles and sing in different voices and play in different ways, I won't stay inspired.
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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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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 grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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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.
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Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
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I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.