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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.

Ben Harper

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
BEN HARPER

Mind Time Want
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.
BEN HARPER

Long Lying Pain
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.
BEN HARPER

Inspiration Rocks
In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you’re traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There’s just one can set you free.
BEN HARPER

Blessed Want Worst
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
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
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.
BEN HARPER

Meet Song Writing Years
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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Gonna Live Up
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
BEN HARPER

God Rooms Separation
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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Blind Heal
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
There’s something in everyone only they know.
BEN HARPER

Empathy Everyone Knows Something
All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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Empathy Humanity Needs
If you’re gonna live, then live it up. If you’re gonna give, then give it up. If you’re gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you’re gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
BEN HARPER

Earth Giving Inspirational
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
BEN HARPER

Firsts Obsession Self
I’ve never made a record that didn’t sound better than what was in my head – that’s sort of my rule.
BEN HARPER

Made Records Sound
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
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Color Risk Taken
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
BEN HARPER

Play Roles Self
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
BEN HARPER

Enemy Mean Rose
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.
BEN HARPER

Interview Lifetime Men
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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Criminals Sky Today
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.
BEN HARPER

Children Sibling Stars
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
BEN HARPER

Adages Everything Loses
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
BEN HARPER

Battle Moral Stories
I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
BEN HARPER

Heaven Hell People

I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.

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