If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
BEN HARPERLife’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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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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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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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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If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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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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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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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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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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All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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