I love being on the road, I love playing.
BEN HARPERThe 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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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.
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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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 can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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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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These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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