Quotes from Ben Harper

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

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

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.

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

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

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.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

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

There's something in everyone only they know.

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.

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.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends