Quotes from Ben Harper

You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you

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.

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.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.

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

My choice is what I choose to do, and if I'm causing no harm, it shouldnt bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, and if you're causing no harm, it shouldn't bother me.

Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief.

I wish you were here so we could walk and talk in the soft rain.

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.

I'm a living sunset/lightning in my bones.

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

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.

Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

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

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.

You can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'

I love being on the road, I love playing.

My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!