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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

Ben Harper

We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks
It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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Anything Duets Mother Son
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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Insane Life Miracle
I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
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Empowering Feelings Song
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
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
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Battle Moral Stories
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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Ends Smoking Weed
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
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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Ideas Stronger Ties
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.
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Discipline Knowing Writing
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
You 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.
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Home Pain Running
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Song Together Wise
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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Bass House Records
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
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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Country Fall Rain
The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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Long Lying Pain
A 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.
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Light Philosophy Shining
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns

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