Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
BEN HARPERI don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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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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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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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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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Children come running to the truth But you’ve got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one’s living high another’s grieving But what’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh – What’s sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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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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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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