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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 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
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Myself Pass Persons Shoes
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
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.
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Inspiration Rocks
People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
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Meet Song Writing Years
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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Mind Time Want
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Love Playing Road
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Adages Everything Loses
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
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Darkness Dawn Friends Old
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical

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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