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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.

Ben Harper

People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
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People Spiritual Trying
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
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.
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Band Records Song
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
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
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Song Together Wise
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
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’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
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
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
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
Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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Funny Heaven Life
People say, “How do you write songs?” I say, “Patience.” I may have a track that’s hot, but no words. I’ll just let it sit for years, because I know they’re going to meet. They’ll find it.
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Meet Song Writing Years
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
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Blessing Comeback People

My head works in music, so there’s always music there.

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