Ben Harper Quotes
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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.
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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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Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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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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Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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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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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 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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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend...
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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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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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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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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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All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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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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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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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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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'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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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've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.