I just want to keep doing what I feel.
BEN HARPERIf 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.
More Ben Harper Quotes
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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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We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
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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.
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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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Life’s the longest picture you’re ever gonna take.
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Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It’s like heaven to me I must confess.
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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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I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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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.
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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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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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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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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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My choice is what I choose to be.
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You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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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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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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