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The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.

Ben Harper

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
BEN HARPER

Song Strong Thinking
Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPER

Bare Bones Folks
These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
BEN HARPER

Battle Eye Relationship
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
BEN HARPER

Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPER

Fortune Need Needs Seek
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
BEN HARPER

Bring Down Good Men Pebble
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
BEN HARPER

Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
BEN HARPER

Mind Time Want
The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing
I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
BEN HARPER

Bass House Records
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
BEN HARPER

Life Love Relationship
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.
BEN HARPER

Home Pain Running
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER

Blind Listening Spiritual
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.
BEN HARPER

Funny Heaven Life
There’s something in everyone only they know.
BEN HARPER

Empathy Everyone Knows Something
Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
BEN HARPER

Blessing First Trying
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.
BEN HARPER

Enemy Mean Rose
My choice is what I choose to do and if I’m causing no harm it shouldn’t bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you’re causin’ no harm, then your alright with me.
BEN HARPER

Life Love Relationship
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPER

Adages Everything Loses
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.
BEN HARPER

Being Free Guitar Regardless Spiritual
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPER

Ends Smoking Weed
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
BEN HARPER

Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
BEN HARPER

People Question Unanswered Worry
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
BEN HARPER

Morning Running World
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.
BEN HARPER

Band Records Song
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
BEN HARPER

Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.

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The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.

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