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There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

Brandi Carlile

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
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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Creator Purpose Redeemer
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
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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Guitar Song 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
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
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
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
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
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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
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
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
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

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