What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
BEN HARPERI appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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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You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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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.
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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’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Time 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!
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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.
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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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Children come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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