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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

Ben Harper

Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
BEN HARPER

Believe Fall Morning
The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
BEN HARPER

Long Lying Pain
Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPER

Bare Bones Folks
My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
BEN HARPER

Band Records Song
It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
BEN HARPER

Boyfriend Break Sometimes Up
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
BEN HARPER

Today Trying Yesterday
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
BEN HARPER

Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
BEN HARPER

Become Easy Person Walks
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
BEN HARPER

Grace Room Singing
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
BEN HARPER

Empathy Humanity Needs
People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
BEN HARPER

Meet Song Writing Years
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
BEN HARPER

Play Roles Self
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
BEN HARPER

Darkness Dawn Friends Old
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
BEN HARPER

Appreciate Done Land

Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

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