Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPERThe woman in you is the worry in me.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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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.
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You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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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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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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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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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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