As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
BEN HARPERThere’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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My choice is what I choose to be.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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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.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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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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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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My 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.
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