Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
BEN HARPEREvery 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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.
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Now that you’ve grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we’ll never make it out alive…
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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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There’s something in everyone only they know.
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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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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.
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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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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.
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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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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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