I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPERI appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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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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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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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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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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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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Folk is bare bones music.
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