My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
BEN HARPERIt was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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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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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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Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you’re alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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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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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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You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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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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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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