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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

Ben Harper

In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
BEN HARPER

Blessed Want Worst
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.
BEN HARPER

Life Love Relationship
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 can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
BEN HARPER

Better Hands Place Two World
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
BEN HARPER

Enemy Mean Rose
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER

Blind Listening Spiritual
I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
BEN HARPER

Made Records Sound
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
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
BEN HARPER

People Question Unanswered Worry
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.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPER

Light Philosophy Shining
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
I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
BEN HARPER

Bass House Records
The woman in you is the worry in me.
BEN HARPER

Evil Misogyny Worry
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
BEN HARPER

Ideas Stronger Ties
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

Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

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