Every man’s actions belong to him.
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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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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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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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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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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The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
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Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Now that you’ve grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we’ll never make it out alive…
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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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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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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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There’s something in everyone only they know.
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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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