If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.
BEN HARPERSometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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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
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I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It’s the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That’s the power of the gospel.
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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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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 love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
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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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You have to do what you believe in.
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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.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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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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They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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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?
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
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There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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