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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.

Ben Harper

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Ben Harper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 28
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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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I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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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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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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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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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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