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Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
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Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
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Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded.
The Streets Interview with Ben Harper, cmj.com (June 20, 2006) -
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
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No star playing, just football.
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No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?
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Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.
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North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
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People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
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