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…
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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You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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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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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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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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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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Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Folk is bare bones music.
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All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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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 refuse to make uninspired music.
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