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

Ben Harper

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

Become Easy Person Walks
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
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
BEN HARPER

Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
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
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
BEN HARPER

Fortune Need Needs Seek
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
BEN HARPER

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

Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
Every man’s actions belong to him.
BEN HARPER

Action Elong Every Men
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 grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
BEN HARPER

Boys California Kind
Folk is bare bones music.
BEN HARPER

Bare Bones Folks
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
BEN HARPER

Girl Liars Names
I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
BEN HARPER

Empowering Feelings Song
The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
BEN HARPER

God Knees Thanks
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
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
BEN HARPER

Anybody Else Fall Fallen

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