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 HARPERSometimes 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 HARPERYou’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
BEN HARPERMy family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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.
BEN HARPERI knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
BEN HARPEREvery man’s actions belong to him.
BEN HARPERMusic 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.
BEN HARPERMy head works in music, so there’s always music there.
BEN HARPERThe spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
BEN HARPERThe world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
BEN HARPERThe woman in you is the worry in me.
BEN HARPERYou can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
BEN HARPERDon’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
BEN HARPERI refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
BEN HARPERLove for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
BEN HARPERI love being on the road, I love playing.
BEN HARPER