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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 Harper

My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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Head Music Work
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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Morning Running World
In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
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Blessed Want Worst
It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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Anything Duets Mother Son
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Block Mean Needs
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
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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Ends Smoking Weed
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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Ideas Stronger Ties
I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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Dying Fall Flying High
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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Today Trying Yesterday
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Doing Feels Want
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
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Blessing First Trying
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.
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Crush Song Writing
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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Song Strong Thinking
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Adages Everything Loses
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune Need Needs Seek
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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Children Try Want Young
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
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical

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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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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