I refuse to make uninspired music.
BEN HARPERThey say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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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.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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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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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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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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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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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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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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I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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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 can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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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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Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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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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