Ben Harper Quotes
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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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All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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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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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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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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My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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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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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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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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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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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.
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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 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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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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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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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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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
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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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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.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
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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.