I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
BEN HARPERI can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
BEN HARPERIf you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPERA candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPERYou can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
BEN HARPERI want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
BEN HARPERIt turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
BEN HARPERChildren come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
BEN HARPERWe 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.
BEN HARPERI really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
BEN HARPERWhen your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
BEN HARPERBut I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
BEN HARPERYou have to do what you believe in.
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.
BEN HARPERSometimes 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.
BEN HARPERMy 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.
BEN HARPERI grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER