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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.

Ben Harper

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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Causes Fire Philosophy
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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Today Trying Yesterday
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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Earth Giving Inspirational
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
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.
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Blessing Comeback People
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Blind Listening Spiritual
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Life Longest Picture Take
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Good Hit Mean Music
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.
BEN HARPER

Children Try Want Young
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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Better Hands Place Two World
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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Criminals Sky Today
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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Ends Smoking Weed
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks
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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Darkness Dawn Friends Old
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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Boyfriend Break Sometimes Up
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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Band Records Song

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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