Now that you’ve grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we’ll never make it out alive…
BEN HARPERThe Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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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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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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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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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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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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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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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 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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Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
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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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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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There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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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.
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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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