Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPERI don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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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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The lifetime we’ve left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can’t be wrong enough and I can’t hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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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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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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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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You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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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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I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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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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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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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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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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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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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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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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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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Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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