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It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

Ben Harper

You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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Life Live Mistake Real
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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Today Trying Yesterday
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
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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Children Sibling Stars
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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God Rooms Separation
You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
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Differences Mistakes Past
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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Color Risk Taken
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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Battle Eye Relationship
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Doing Feels Want
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World
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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Discipline Knowing Writing
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
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God Knees Thanks
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Life Love Relationship
Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you’re alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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Hands Home Worried
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
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.
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Blessing Comeback People

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