Ben Harper Quotes - Page 3

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.

I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.

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.

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.

Folk is bare bones music.

The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

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

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

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

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 your alright with me.

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Every man's actions belong to him.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

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.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

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