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Ben Harper

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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Song Strong Thinking
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
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
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
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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Children Try Want Young
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
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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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
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Made Records Sound
I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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Bass House Records
I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Love Playing Road
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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Hands Mean Reality
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 get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
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
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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Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use

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