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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

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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Boys California Kind
We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
BEN HARPER

Different Moving Moving Forward
There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Feel Heal Much Touch
I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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Bones Lightning Sunset
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
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
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed Children Reflection
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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Doing Feels Want
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
BEN HARPER

Country Family Own Stores
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
BEN HARPER

Around Skateboard Travelling World
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
If you’re gonna live, then live it up.
BEN HARPER

Gonna Live Up
Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
BEN HARPER

Blind Heal
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
Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can’t explain But I faithfully remain.
BEN HARPER

Battle Lost Waste

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.

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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.

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