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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.

Ben Harper

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.
BEN HARPER

Inspiration Rocks
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
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
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
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
There’s something in everyone only they know.
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Empathy Everyone Knows Something
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.
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Causes Fire Philosophy
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
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
To go through this life and see it through – what it really is – and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
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Insane Life Miracle
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Song Together Wise
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
BEN HARPER

Ends Smoking Weed
If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
BEN HARPER

Inspire Inspired Play

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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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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