Brandi Carlile on vintage
Brandi Carlile10 quotes“My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.”
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Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile There’s a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend – we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It’s a little bit dangerous, because you’ll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile The mole can’t live in your dollhouse.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you’re talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.
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My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
Ben FoldsBen Folds No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
Yves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent The gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Violet NicolsonViolet Nicolson To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
A.C. GraylingA.C. Grayling Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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