I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPERI want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up. If you’re gonna give, then give it up. If you’re gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you’re gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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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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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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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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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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