When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
BEN HARPERSometimes 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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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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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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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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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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The woman in you is the worry in me.
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