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
BEN HARPERIt’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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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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Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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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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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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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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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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