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If you're gonna live, then live it up.

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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
Gonna
Live

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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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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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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 just want to keep doing what I feel.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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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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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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Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it
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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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Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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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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I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.
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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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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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Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.
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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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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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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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