Latest Ben Harper Quotes from Interviews

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• There's so much there, there's so much to heal for.

  Ben Harper

  Heal

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

• I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

  Ben Harper

  Shoes, Persons, I Can

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

• We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.

  Ben Harper

  Moving, Different, Moving Forward

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

• I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.

  Ben Harper

  Land, Appreciate, Done

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  Ben Harper

  Real, Mistake, Live Life

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

• 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.

  Ben Harper

  Men, Interviews, Lifetime

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

• Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.

  Ben Harper

  Stars, Children, Sibling

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

• 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.

• I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

  Ben Harper

  Walks, Persons, Know How

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

• 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.

  Ben Harper

  Children, Who I Am, Trying

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

• I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.

  Ben Harper

  Believe, Mean, Kids

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

• 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

• 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.

  Ben Harper

  Miracle, Insane, This Life

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

• The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

  Ben Harper

  News, Good Things, Shoulders

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

• 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.

  Ben Harper

  Wise, Song, Together

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 21, 2013.

• As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

  Ben Harper

  Years, Two, May

  "Musicians Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 21, 2013.

• People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

  Ben Harper

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Musicians Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 21, 2013.

• Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

  Ben Harper

  Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org