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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.

Ben Harper

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Ben Harper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 28
Guitarist
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Pomona
California
Benjamin Chase Harper
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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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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
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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.
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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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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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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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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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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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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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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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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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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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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