You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
BEN HARPERI refuse to make uninspired music.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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There’s something in everyone only they know.
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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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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.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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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.
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As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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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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Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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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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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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