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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

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

Bring Down Good Men Pebble
If you’re gonna live, then live it up. If you’re gonna give, then give it up. If you’re gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you’re gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
BEN HARPER

Earth Giving Inspirational
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.
BEN HARPER

Inspiration Rocks
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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Enemy Mean Rose
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
In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
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Blessed Want Worst
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.
BEN HARPER

Arrogant Guy Humble
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play
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.
BEN HARPER

Song Together Wise
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Believe Distance Relationship
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
BEN HARPER

Song Strong Thinking
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Life Longest Picture Take
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPER

Ends Smoking Weed
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
BEN HARPER

Insane Life Miracle
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
BEN HARPER

Become Easy Person Walks

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.

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