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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.

Ben Harper

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.
BEN HARPER

Loathing Self Steps Suppose
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
BEN HARPER

Today Trying Yesterday
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPER

Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
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.
BEN HARPER

Believe Distance Relationship
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

Boys Heritage Musical
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
BEN HARPER

Become Easy Person Walks
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
BEN HARPER

Good Hit Mean Music
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
BEN HARPER

Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPER

Bare Bones Folks
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
BEN HARPER

Girl Liars Names
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.
BEN HARPER

Home Pain Running
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
BEN HARPER

Battle Moral Stories
To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
BEN HARPER

Insane Life Miracle
There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Feel Heal Much Touch
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.
BEN HARPER

Inspiration Rocks
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
BEN HARPER

Grace Room Singing

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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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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