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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

If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune Need Needs Seek
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
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
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
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
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
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
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Life Longest Picture Take
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
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
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
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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Mind Time Want
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.
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Insane Life Miracle
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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Enemy Mean Rose
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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Criminals Sky Today
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
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
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’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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Boyfriend Break Sometimes Up
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
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Battle Moral Stories
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
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
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
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

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