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Ben Harper

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
BEN HARPER

Ideas Stronger Ties
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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Head Music Work
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Love Playing Road
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
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!
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Hands Mean Reality
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
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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Discipline Knowing Writing
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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Life Live Mistake Real
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Block Mean Needs
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.
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Long Lying Pain
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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Crush Song Writing
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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Battle Lost Waste
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Life Love Relationship
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
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Doing Feels Want

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

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