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Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Brandi Carlile

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
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I’m feeling verbally communal with other people. It’s out there and I feel so much better about it.
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Communal Feelings Happen People Writing
In life, I’m most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
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People Powerful Thinking
You can’t change people, but most importantly, unless you’re their momma, you don’t even know what’s best for them.
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Change Momma People
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we’re born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
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Complacency Country Soul
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I’m feeling just a little “extra important.”
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Animal Daughter Fishing
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.
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Records Sitting Song
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I’ve been doing that for a long time.
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Cities Fishing Lakes
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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Creator Purpose Redeemer
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
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
I’m not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can’t in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.
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Arrogant Art Compartmentalizing Music Next
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage

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