205 Quotes by Ben Harper

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

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.