You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.

Ben Harper

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Real

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

BEN HARPER

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
BEN HARPER

Color
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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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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I refuse to make uninspired music.

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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Uninspired
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.

BEN HARPER

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
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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Sadness Taken Yesterday
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

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
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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Causes
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Listening
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

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I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Pass Persons
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.

BEN HARPER

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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Humble
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

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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Dawn
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

BEN HARPER

There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.

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I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
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Made Records
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Choices
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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Sibling
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

BEN HARPER

You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
BEN HARPER

You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.

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