Ben Harper Quotes

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

Music inspires me.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Dance is so joyous.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

Music is such a part of my soul.

I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet.

Something very special happens with music when it is written with great enthusiasm.

Every time I dance, it's a tremendous blessing, and I just can't forget that.

I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the Jazzmaster's just your comrade on that journey. It can be really subtle, it can be angry, it can be chill. It can be anything.

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

Dance excites me.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.

I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.