Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
BEN HARPERYou can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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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.
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We 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.
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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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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Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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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.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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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.
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
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The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
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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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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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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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