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Ben Harper

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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Ideas Stronger Ties
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
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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Crush Song Writing
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
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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Long Lying Pain
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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Home Pain Running
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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Existence Song Writing
Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
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Blessing First Trying
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Song Together Wise
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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Darkness Dawn Friends Old
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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Children Try Want Young
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
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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Boys California Kind

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