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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.

Ben Harper

Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
BEN HARPER

Enemy Mean Rose
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.
BEN HARPER

Ideas Stronger Ties
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
BEN HARPER

Bones Stardust Stars
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
BEN HARPER

Become Easy Person Walks
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
BEN HARPER

Changed Children Reflection
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.
BEN HARPER

Cream Crop Crops Shows
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.
BEN HARPER

Hands Home Worried
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
BEN HARPER

Anything Believe Hope
The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
BEN HARPER

Long Lying Pain
I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
BEN HARPER

Bass House Records
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER

Causes Fire Philosophy
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
BEN HARPER

Morning Running World
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.
BEN HARPER

Easter Fall Hate
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
BEN HARPER

Darkness Dawn Friends Old
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
BEN HARPER

Around Skateboard Travelling World
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
BEN HARPER

Different Moving Moving Forward

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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