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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.

Ben Harper

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
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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Jesus Name Number
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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Grace Room Singing
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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Discipline Knowing Writing
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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Criminals Sky Today
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
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.
BEN HARPER

Band Records Song
The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
BEN HARPER

Crush Song Writing
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I’ve gotten happier so it’s a damn good thing.
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Good News Shoulder Things
You can’t just say ‘I love you,’ you have to live ‘I love you.’
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Emotion Express Feel Live Love Say
I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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Today Trying Yesterday
Sometimes it’s lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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Bottle Lightning Often Show Sometimes Time
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Good Hit Mean Music
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Heritage Musical

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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