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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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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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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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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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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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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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There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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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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As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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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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But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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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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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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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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There's something in everyone only they know.
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