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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

Ben Harper

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.
BEN HARPER

Children Try Want Young
My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
BEN HARPER

Head Music Work
People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
BEN HARPER

Meet Song Writing Years
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
BEN HARPER

Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
BEN HARPER

Existence Song Writing
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
BEN HARPER

Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
The woman in you is the worry in me.
BEN HARPER

Evil Misogyny Worry
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
BEN HARPER

Good Hit Mean Music
My choice is what I choose to be.
BEN HARPER

Advice Choices Choose
The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
BEN HARPER

Long Lying Pain
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.
BEN HARPER

Interview Lifetime Men
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
BEN HARPER

Morning Running World
I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
BEN HARPER

Heaven Hell People
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
BEN HARPER

May Music Two Years
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
BEN HARPER

Blessing Comeback People
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.
BEN HARPER

Inspiration Rocks

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