As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPERI’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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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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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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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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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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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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Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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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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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
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