As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPERAs long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPERWhat 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 HARPERWhen you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPERI love being on the road, I love playing.
BEN HARPERIf I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPERIt 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 HARPERI’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
BEN HARPERWe 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 HARPERIf I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
BEN HARPEREvery time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
BEN HARPERTime 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!
BEN HARPERTo go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
BEN HARPERI 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.
BEN HARPEREvery 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.
BEN HARPERI grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPERI’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
BEN HARPER