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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.

Ben Harper

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
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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Morning Running World
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPER

Light Philosophy Shining
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.
BEN HARPER

Band Records Song
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

Boys Heritage Musical
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

Differences Mistakes Past
I love being on the road, I love playing.
BEN HARPER

Love Playing Road
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

Boys Discovery Lesson Life
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
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
BEN HARPER

Today Trying Yesterday
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
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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Color Risk Taken
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.
BEN HARPER

Meet Song Writing Years
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER

Blind Listening Spiritual
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
BEN HARPER

Around Skateboard Travelling World
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPER

Fortune Need Needs Seek
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
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
BEN HARPER

Being Free Guitar Regardless Spiritual
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
BEN HARPER

Anybody Else Fall Fallen
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
BEN HARPER

Appreciate Done Land
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.
BEN HARPER

Long Lying Pain
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
BEN HARPER

Loathing Self Steps Suppose
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
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

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