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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.

Ben Harper

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

Good Hit Mean Music
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.
BEN HARPER

Enemy Mean Rose
You have to do what you believe in.
BEN HARPER

Believe Self Love Trust
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
BEN HARPER

Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
BEN HARPER

Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
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
BEN HARPER

Mind Time Want
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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Better Hands Place Two World
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
BEN HARPER

Bones Stardust Stars
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
BEN HARPER

Blessing Comeback People
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

Boys Heritage Musical
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
BEN HARPER

Ethics Long Moral
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
BEN HARPER

Myself Pass Persons Shoes
I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
BEN HARPER

Boys California Kind
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER

Causes Fire Philosophy
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPER

Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
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.
BEN HARPER

Light Philosophy Shining

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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