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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

Ben Harper

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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Existence Song Writing
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
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Morning Running World
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
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
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
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
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
Folk is bare bones music.
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Bare Bones Folks
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
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Being Free Guitar Regardless Spiritual
You have to do what you believe in.
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Believe Self Love Trust
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
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
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
I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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Dying Fall Flying High
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
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
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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Boyfriend Break Up Relationship
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
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Doing Feels Want
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
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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Discipline Knowing Writing
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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Cream Crop Crops Shows
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

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