Top 100 Ben Harper Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away.”

— Ben Harper

2. “There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.”

— Ben Harper

3. “If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.”

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4. “Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.”

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

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6. “When you have everything, you have everything to lose.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “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

9. “Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.”

— Ben Harper

10. “If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around. Cause I’m gonna burn one down.”

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

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12. “With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?”

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13. “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.”

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14. “Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it’s done.”

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15. “You’re definitely a different person at different stages in your life.”

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

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17. “These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.”

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18. “As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery.”

— Ben Harper

19. “If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “I’m really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.”

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22. “There’s something in everyone only they know.”

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23. “Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse.”

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24. “We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.”

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25. “Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.”

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26. “Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.”

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27. “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.”

— Ben Harper

28. “As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.”

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

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30. “They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.”

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31. “I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.”

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32. “You can’t just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you.”

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33. “There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?”

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34. “Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “We’ve all got stardust in our bones...”

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

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38. “Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I’d rather walk alone than chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.”

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39. “You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “I’m a living sunset, lightning in my bones.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend...”

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

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49. “It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.”

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50. “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.”

— Ben Harper