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Ben Harper

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
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
But 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.
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Blessing Comeback People
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
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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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
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
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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Interview Lifetime Men
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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Girl Liars Names
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
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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Dying Fall Flying High
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
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.
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Crush Song Writing
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral

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