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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

When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPER

Adages Everything Loses
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’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 Sound
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.
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Easter Fall Hate
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
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
My choice is what I choose to do and if I’m causing no harm it shouldn’t bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you’re causin’ no harm, then your alright with me.
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Life Love Relationship
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
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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Home Pain Running
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
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.
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God Knees Thanks
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Life Longest Picture Take
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
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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Causes Fire Philosophy
There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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Feel Heal Much Touch
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Life Love Relationship
Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you’re alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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Hands Home Worried
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
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
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.
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Inspiration Rocks
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Light Philosophy Shining
You have to do what you believe in.
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Believe Self Love Trust
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
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward

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