Top 100 Ben Harper Quotes
#1. Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.
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#2. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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#3. 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. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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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#6. These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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#7. What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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#8. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
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#12. 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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#13. If you don't like my fire, don't come around cuz I'm gonna burn one down.
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#14. That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
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#15. It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.
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#16. My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.
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#17. 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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#18. We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.
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#19. We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.
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#20. If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. Every man's actions belong to him.
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#24. 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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#25. I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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#26. As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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#27. I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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#28. 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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#29. Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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#30. 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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#31. Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.
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#32. Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
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#33. There's so much there, there's so much to heal for.
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#34. Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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#35. When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
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#36. My head works in music, so there's always music there.
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#37. Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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#38. You have to do what you believe in.
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#39. Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
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#40. You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you
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#41. I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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#42. As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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#43. There's something in everyone only they know.
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#44. 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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#45. As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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#46. You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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#47. They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.
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#48. 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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#49. Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief.
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#50. It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
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#51. Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known
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#52. We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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#53. We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
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#54. There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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#55. 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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#56. If you're gonna live, then live it up.
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#57. The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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#58. All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend ...
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#63. If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
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#64. I love being on the road, I love playing.
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#66. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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#67. I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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#68. 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.
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#69. If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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#70. My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded.
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#71. Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
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#72. If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
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#73. I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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#74. When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
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#75. I wish you were here so we could walk and talk in the soft rain.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.
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#79. I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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#81. With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
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#82. The woman in you is the worry in me.
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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#87. My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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#88. We've all got stardust in our bones ...
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#89. I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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#90. The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
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#91. I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
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#92. Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse
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#93. I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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#94. Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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#95. Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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#96. 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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#97. I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.
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#98. In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.
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#99. Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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#100. 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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