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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

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

Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Feel Heal Much Touch
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

Boys Heritage Musical
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
BEN HARPER

May Music Two Years
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
BEN HARPER

Darkness Dawn Friends Old
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

Made Records Sound
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.
BEN HARPER

Band Records Song
It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
BEN HARPER

Anything Duets Mother Son
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.
BEN HARPER

Children Try Want Young
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

Children Sibling Stars
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
BEN HARPER

Become Easy Person Walks
To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
BEN HARPER

Insane Life Miracle
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?
BEN HARPER

Believe Fall Morning
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play
I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
BEN HARPER

Heaven Hell People
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.
BEN HARPER

Earth Giving Inspirational
You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
BEN HARPER

Home Pain Running
My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
BEN HARPER

Head Music Work
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
BEN HARPER

Different Moving Moving Forward
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
BEN HARPER

Firsts Obsession Self
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
BEN HARPER

Battle Moral Stories
People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
BEN HARPER

Meet Song Writing Years
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Blind Heal
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
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.
BEN HARPER

Easter Fall Hate
Every man’s actions belong to him.
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Action Elong Every Men
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
BEN HARPER

Girl Liars Names

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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