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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.

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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Existence
Hope
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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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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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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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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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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
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What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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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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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
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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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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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I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.
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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 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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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 can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'
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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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It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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