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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

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.
BEN HARPER

Dying Fall Flying High
It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
BEN HARPER

Anything Duets Mother Son
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
BEN HARPER

Life Longest Picture Take
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
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.
BEN HARPER

Boys Discovery Lesson Life
I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
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Empowering Feelings Song
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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Discipline Knowing Writing
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
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.
BEN HARPER

Home Pain Running
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
BEN HARPER

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

Bass House Records
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPER

Diminishing Interviews Return Returns

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.

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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.

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