Ben Harper
Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harperis an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally. Harper is a three-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005. He also won a Grammy for Best...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth28 October 1969
CityPomona, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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.
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.
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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.
I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it
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.
It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away
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.
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
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
There's so much there, there's so much to heal for.