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Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.

Brandi Carlile

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Records Sitting Song
So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it’s the only problem but there’s got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.
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Artist Block Stress
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage
I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people’s songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.
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Believe Creativity Song
I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole ‘Super Bowl’ generalization of our world – You’re on this side, I’m on that side; you’re a Republican, I’m a Democrat; you’re country music, I’m rock music.
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Country Issues Our World
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I’ve played so many shows in Colorado that I think I’m the Colorado house band.
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House Oasis Thinking
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.
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Audience Definitions Sure
But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I’ve learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.
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Sound Two Years
My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
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Country Father Mother
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
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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Believe Vintage Writing
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.
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Mind Thinking Vegas
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time

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