Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPERPeople say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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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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In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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The woman in you is the worry in me.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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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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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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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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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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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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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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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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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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