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I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Ben Harper

The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
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God Knees Thanks
Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune Need Needs Seek
Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
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Country Fall Rain
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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Better Hands Place Two World
Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Life Longest Picture Take
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
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
I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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Boys California Kind
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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Believe Fall Morning
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
I refuse to make uninspired music.
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Music Refuse Uninspired
You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
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Differences Mistakes Past
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Block Mean Needs
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Myself Pass Persons Shoes
You have to do what you believe in.
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Believe Self Love Trust
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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Head Music Work
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
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 I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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Inspire Inspired Play
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Adages Everything Loses
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
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Believe Distance Relationship
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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Firsts Obsession Self
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

I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

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