It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
BEN HARPERDon’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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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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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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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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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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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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My choice is what I choose to be.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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