As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPERMy 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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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.
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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My choice is what I choose to do and if I’m causing no harm it shouldn’t bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you’re causin’ no harm, then your alright with me.
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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Love 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.
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Music 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.
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The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
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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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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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