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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

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
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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Firsts Obsession Self
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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Fall Relationship Resist Temptation
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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Good News Shoulder Things
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.
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Being Free Guitar Regardless Spiritual
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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Bring Down Good Men Pebble
It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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Boyfriend Break Sometimes Up
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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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
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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Battle Eye Relationship
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
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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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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Ends Smoking Weed
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.
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Enemy Mean Rose
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing

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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