The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It’s a morning yearning.
BEN HARPERSome things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
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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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Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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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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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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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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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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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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