Every man’s actions belong to him.
BEN HARPERThey say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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It 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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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
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I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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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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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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I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.
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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.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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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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