People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
BEN HARPERDistance 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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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.
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If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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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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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.
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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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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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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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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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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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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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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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That 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.
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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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There’s something in everyone only they know.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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