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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.

Ben Harper

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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Jesus Name Number
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
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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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
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
In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
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Blessed Want Worst
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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Bring Down Good Men Pebble
There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Life Love Relationship
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
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 Song Writing
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune Need Needs Seek
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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Good News Shoulder Things
To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
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Insane Life Miracle
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry

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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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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