Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPERMy choice is what I choose to do and if I’m causing no harm it shouldn’t bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you’re causin’ no harm, then your alright with me.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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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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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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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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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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Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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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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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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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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I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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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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