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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.

Brandi Carlile

My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Father Mother
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Guitar Song Writing
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can’t be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they’re gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
BRANDI CARLILE

Gay Issues Life Love
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
BRANDI CARLILE

Advice Artist Vintage
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
BRANDI CARLILE

Creator Purpose Redeemer
You can’t change people, but most importantly, unless you’re their momma, you don’t even know what’s best for them.
BRANDI CARLILE

Change Momma People
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.”
BRANDI CARLILE

Animal Daughter Fishing
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

People Powerful Thinking
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
BRANDI CARLILE

Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Believe Creativity Song
Wherever is your heart I call home.
BRANDI CARLILE

Call Heart Home
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 CARLILE

Mind Thinking Vegas
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
BRANDI CARLILE

Feels Sing Voice
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Issues Our World
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
BRANDI CARLILE

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.
BRANDI CARLILE

House Oasis Thinking

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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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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