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.
BEN HARPERI 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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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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We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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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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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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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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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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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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