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.
BEN HARPERYou 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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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 refuse to make uninspired music.
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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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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can’t do that!
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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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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You have to do what you believe in.
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Could’ve sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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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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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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