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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

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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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 your alright with me.
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If you're gonna live, then live it up.
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I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.
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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.
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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 grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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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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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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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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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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I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. 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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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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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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