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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Ben Harper

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.
BEN HARPER

Band Records Song
Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
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Battle Lost Waste
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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Ends Smoking Weed
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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Bring Down Good Men Pebble
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
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Blind Listening Spiritual
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Song Together Wise
I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
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Made Records Sound
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
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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Children Try Want Young
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
BEN HARPER

People Question Unanswered Worry

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