We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
BEN HARPERThat happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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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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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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Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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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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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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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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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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