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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.

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
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Blind Listening Spiritual
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
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
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
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
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
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks
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
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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God Rooms Separation
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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Believe Distance Relationship
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.

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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.

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