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People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

Ben Harper

I really feel there’s no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That’s an empowering feeling – that we can bring a song to life.
BEN HARPER

Empowering Feelings Song
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Love Magnificent Something Turns
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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Arrogant Guy Humble
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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Play Roles Self
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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Believe Fall Morning
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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Different Person Stage
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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Hands Mean Reality
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
You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
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Differences Mistakes Past
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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Morning Running World
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
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Fall Relationship Resist Temptation
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.
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Children Sibling Stars
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.
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Inspiration Rocks
I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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Heaven Hell People
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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Children Try Want Young
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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Appreciate Done Land
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.
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Meet Song Writing Years
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’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.
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Bass House Records
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
There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
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Feel Heal Much Touch
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
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
The spirit is what guides my life, and I’m humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it’s something to be lived.
BEN HARPER

God Knees Thanks

People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, ’cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

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