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 HARPERLife is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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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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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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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…
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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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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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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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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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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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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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Every man’s actions belong to him.
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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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It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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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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