Ben Harper Quotes (1969-)

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

“I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place.”

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

“Listen stranger, passerby,
And those I never knew.
There's not one day that you are living
Has been promised to you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Real life has let you down.
Real life has let you down.
Someone stripped the jewel from your crown.
Everybody owes somebody something.”

“You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise.”

“A candle throws its light into the darkness
In a nasty world, so shines the good deed
Make sure the fortune, that you seek
Is the fortune you need.”

“Where did you learn to do that so well?
Where did you learn to do that so well?
I guess that would be like kiss and tell.
If it's a secret, why did you show me?”

“Now I've been hangin' 'round you for days,
Bt when I lean in you just turn your head away.
Oh no, you didn't mean that.
She said I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act.”

“Now I love to feel that warm southern rain,
Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing.
And to see it fall on your simple country dress
It's like heaven to me I must confess.”

“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 your causin' no harm
Then you're alright with me.”

“Fools will be fools,
And wise will be wise.
But I will look this world
Straight in the eyes.

What good is a man
Who won't take a stand?
What good is a cynic
With no better plan?”

“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.”

“My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.”

“Excuse me Mr.
But isn't that your oil in the sea?
And the pollution in the air Mr.
Whose could that be?

So excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.”

“Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“Children come running to the truth
But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit
And while one's living high another's grieving
But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening
Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.”

“In my life I have been blessed
In my life I have been cursed
I have lived the best of times
I have suffered the worst
Do you know which road you're traveling?
Do you know where you want to be?
With so many roads to travel,
There's just one can set you free.”