Top 43 Quotes by Ben Harper

I refuse to make uninspired music.

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

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.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

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.

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.

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.