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The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

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
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I’ve been and how I got to where I am.
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Across Lines Stories
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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
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
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
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
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 have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
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Air Sleep Wine
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
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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Creator Purpose Redeemer
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

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