As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
BEN HARPEREvery man’s actions belong to him.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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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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The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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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 room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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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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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up. If you’re gonna give, then give it up. If you’re gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you’re gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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