I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPERI really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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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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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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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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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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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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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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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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The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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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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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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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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