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Ben Harper

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
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
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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Boys California Kind
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER

Blind Listening Spiritual
I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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Heaven Hell People
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
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 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.
BEN HARPER

Ideas Stronger Ties
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
BEN HARPER

Difference Live Photograph Time
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
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
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER

Causes Fire Philosophy
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.
BEN HARPER

Blessing Comeback People
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
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.
BEN HARPER

Boys Discovery Lesson Life
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
BEN HARPER

Today Trying Yesterday
You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
BEN HARPER

Differences Mistakes Past
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
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
BEN HARPER

Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPER

Ends Smoking Weed

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