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You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

Ben Harper

My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
BEN HARPER

Head Music Work
The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
BEN HARPER

Anybody Else Fall Fallen
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
BEN HARPER

Existence Song Writing
There’s something in everyone only they know.
BEN HARPER

Empathy Everyone Knows Something
Children come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
BEN HARPER

Morning Running Sweet
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
BEN HARPER

Block Mean Needs
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.
BEN HARPER

Funny Heaven Life
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
BEN HARPER

Different Moving Moving Forward
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
BEN HARPER

Bring Down Good Men Pebble
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
BEN HARPER

People Question Unanswered Worry
The woman in you is the worry in me.
BEN HARPER

Evil Misogyny Worry
I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
BEN HARPER

Made Records Sound
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
BEN HARPER

Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
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!
BEN HARPER

Hands Mean Reality
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
BEN HARPER

Good News Shoulder Things
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
BEN HARPER

Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
BEN HARPER

Bones Stardust Stars
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

Enemy Mean Rose
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPER

Ethics Long Moral
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPER

Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
BEN HARPER

Blessing Comeback People
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.
BEN HARPER

Boys California Kind
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
BEN HARPER

Battle Moral Stories
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.
BEN HARPER

God Knees Thanks
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
BEN HARPER

Country Family Own Stores
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
BEN HARPER

Gonna Live Up

You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

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