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Ben Harper

My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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Song Strong Thinking
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you’re alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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Hands Home Worried
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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Criminals Sky Today
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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People Spiritual Trying
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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Inspiration Rocks
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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Different Person Stage
Now that you’ve grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we’ll never make it out alive…
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Alive Children World
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
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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Arrogant Guy Humble
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
Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
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Blessing First Trying
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Battle Moral Stories
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
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune Need Needs Seek
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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Cream Crop Crops Shows
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
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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Hands Mean Reality
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
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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Mind Time Want
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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Ideas Stronger Ties

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