Brandi Carlile on vintage
Brandi Carlile10 quotes“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.”
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The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Wherever is your heart I call home.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile I’m not sure I’ll ever be famous by anyone’s definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life’s work.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
Bobby KnightBobby Knight The purpose of it all is love.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile The mole can’t live in your dollhouse.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Ladies, apologies, but isn’t ‘vintage’ just used stuff?
Bob SagetBob Saget 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