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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.

Ben Harper

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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Light Philosophy Shining
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
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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Alive Children World
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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Believe Fall Morning
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Love Playing Road
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
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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Earth Giving Inspirational
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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Fall Relationship Resist Temptation
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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Existence Song Writing
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
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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Battle Lost Waste
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
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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Darkness Dawn Friends Old
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
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
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
You have to do what you believe in.
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Believe Self Love Trust
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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Cream Crop Crops Shows
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
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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Long Lying Pain
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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Band Records Song

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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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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