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.
BEN HARPERThere’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Children come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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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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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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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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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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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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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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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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