I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
BEN HARPERMy band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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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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These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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Children come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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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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I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
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You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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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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The woman in you is the worry in me.
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