Ben Harper Music Quotes & Sayings

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. — Ben Harper

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

Folk is bare bones music. — Ben Harper

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it. — Ben Harper

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. — Ben Harper

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

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. — Ben Harper

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 — Ben Harper

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have. — Ben Harper

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

I refuse to make uninspired music. — Ben Harper

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music. — Ben Harper

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. — Ben Harper

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

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel. — Tammin Sursok

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. — Ben Harper

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. — Ben Harper

There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit. — Ben Harper

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. — Ben Harper

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 you're alright with me. — Ben Harper

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