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“Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.”
— Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999).
“Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.”
— About interviews
“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).

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Benjamin Harper (1817–1887) was an American businessman and politician. Life and career Harper was born February 12, 1817, in Philadelphia. He was the son of the mariner Peter Harper and lived in Ohio and Missouri before he settling in Illinois in 1850. From 1854 until 1855 Harper was Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois. He was a Republican. A wealthy hotel owner, he was the builder of the Harper House (1871) and Harper′s Theatre (1878). The Harper House “has been described in superlatives, such as the ‘finest hotel between Chicago and the Pacific coast’” (George W. Wickstrom). The hotel occupied the site of the former Rodman House that burned down on October 22, 1869. It is not to be confused with his private home also known as “Harper House”. Besides real estate, Harper was involved in the Coal Valley mines, Rock Island Gas Works and the Rock Island & Moline Railway Company. Ben Harper died April 3, 1887, in the city of Rock Island. He is buried at Chippiannock Cemetery.

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Ben Harper across IJR

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Notable quotes

Notable quotes

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Ben Harper across IJR