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If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Ben Harper

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.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
BEN HARPER

Discipline Knowing Writing
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Blind Heal
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.
BEN HARPER

Good News Shoulder Things
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
BEN HARPER

Block Mean Needs
Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
BEN HARPER

Funny Heaven Life
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.
BEN HARPER

Earth Giving Inspirational
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPER

Adages Everything Loses
My choice is what I choose to be.
BEN HARPER

Advice Choices Choose
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
BEN HARPER

Color Heart Music
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
BEN HARPER

May Music Two Years
You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
BEN HARPER

Different Person Stage
Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
BEN HARPER

Believe Fall Morning
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
BEN HARPER

Interview Lifetime Men
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPER

Ends Smoking Weed
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
BEN HARPER

Anything Believe Hope

If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

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