Ben Harper Quotes

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

  Ben Harper

  Needs, Fortune

  Song: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

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• What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

  Ben Harper

  Believe

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• You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

  Ben Harper

  Different, Stage, Persons

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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.

  Ben Harper

  Music, Heart, Color

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• Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

  Ben Harper

  Battle, Stories, Moral

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• Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

  Ben Harper

  Blind, Heal

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

  Ben Harper

  Turns, Magnificent

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'

  Ben Harper

  Love You, Say I Love You

  "Song: Heart of Matters (Lifeline)". August 28, 2007.

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• Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.

  Ben Harper

  Song: Engraved Invitation, Album: Both Sides of the Gun, 2006

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• As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

  Ben Harper

  Long, Ethics, Moral

  Song: People Lead, Album: Fight for Your Mind, 1995

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• I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

  Ben Harper

  Who I Am, Yesterday, Trying

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

  Ben Harper

  Empathy, Humanity, Needs

  Song: Never Leave Lonely Alone, Album: Both Sides of the Gun, 2006

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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 you're alright with me. If you don't like my fire, then don't come around, 'cause I'm gonna burn one down. Yes, I'm gonna burn one down. Herb the gift from the earth, And what's from the earth is of the greatest worth. So before you knock it try it first, Oh, you'll see it's a blessing and not a curse.

  Ben Harper

  Blessing, Fire, Choices

  Song: Burn One Down

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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

  Inspirational, Giving, Earth

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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.

  Ben Harper

  Writing, Knowing, Discipline

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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.

  Ben Harper

  Taken, Color, Risk

  Song: In The Colors, Album: Lifeline

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• When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

  Ben Harper

  Adages, Loses

  Song: Diamonds on the Inside, Album: Diamonds On The Inside, 2003

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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.

  Ben Harper

  Philosophy, Light, Shining

  Song: Diamonds On The Inside

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• Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.

  Ben Harper

  Mistake, Stupid, Fall

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• We've all got stardust in our bones.

  Ben Harper

  Stars, Bones, Stardust

  Song: Get It Like You Like It, Album: Both Sides of the Gun

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• It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

  Ben Harper

  Break Up, Ex Boyfriend, Sometimes

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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.

  Ben Harper

  God, Knees, Thanks

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• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, Substance

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• You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

  Ben Harper

  Mistake, Past, Differences

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• What started as a whisper
  Slowly turned into a scream
  Searching for an answer
  Where the question is unseen
  I don't know where you came from
  And I don't know where you've gone
  Old friends become old strangers
  Between the darkness and the dawn

  Ben Harper

  Old Friends, Darkness, Dawn

  Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

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