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.
BEN HARPERI dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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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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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
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You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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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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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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My choice is what I choose to be.
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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.
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