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Ben Harper

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Blind Listening Spiritual
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
BEN HARPER

God Rooms Separation
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
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
BEN HARPER

Bones Stardust Stars
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

Boys Heritage Musical
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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Battle Lost Waste
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
BEN HARPER

People Question Unanswered Worry
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
BEN HARPER

Morning Running World
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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Home Pain Running
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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Enemy Mean Rose
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.
BEN HARPER

Children Sibling Stars
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.
BEN HARPER

Color Heart Music
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
BEN HARPER

May Music Two Years
Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPER

Bare Bones Folks

I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.

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