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Some 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.

Ben Harper

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
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Adages Everything Loses
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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Children Sibling Stars
I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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Heaven Hell People
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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Arrogant Guy Humble
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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Home Pain Running
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
I can’t not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Myself Pass Persons Shoes
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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Different Moving Moving Forward
Now that you’ve grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we’ll never make it out alive…
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Alive Children World
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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Continual Growth Growth Looking Forward
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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Color Heart Music

Some 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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Some 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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