The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPERMy main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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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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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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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.
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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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What 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
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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The 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.
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If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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