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There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.

Ben Harper

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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Color Risk Taken
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World
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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Boys California Kind
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Doing Feels Want
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
I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
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Made Records Sound
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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Good News Shoulder Things
Every man’s actions belong to him.
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Action Elong Every Men
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
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
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
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
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
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
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
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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Fall Relationship Resist Temptation
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
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
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Block Mean Needs
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
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns

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