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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Ben Harper

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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Cream Crop Crops Shows
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.
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Funny Heaven Life
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Believe Distance Relationship
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
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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Song Strong Thinking
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
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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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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Children Try Want Young
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Good Hit Mean Music
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Battle Moral Stories
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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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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People Question Unanswered Worry
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.
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Meet Song Writing Years
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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Firsts Obsession Self
My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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Head Music Work
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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Causes Fire Philosophy
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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God Rooms Separation
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Myself Pass Persons Shoes
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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Color Heart Music
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
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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Better Hands Place Two World
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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Bring Down Good Men Pebble

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