When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPERWe’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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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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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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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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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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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Sometimes 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.
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My choice is what I choose to be.
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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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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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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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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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.
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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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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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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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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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