Ben Harper Quotes - Page 5

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...

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.

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.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?

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.

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.

The woman in you is the worry in me.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes.

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.

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.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.