It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
BEN HARPERIf 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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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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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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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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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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I’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.
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As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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Every 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.
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My 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.
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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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You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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