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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.

Ben Harper

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Ben Harper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 28
Guitarist
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Pomona
California
Benjamin Chase Harper
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Word
Inspirational
Earth
Give
Loud
Live
Gonna
Giving
Walk
Proud

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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 turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
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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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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'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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I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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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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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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You have to do what you believe in.
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There's something in everyone only they know.
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When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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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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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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Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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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 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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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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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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