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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

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.
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Gay Issues Life Love
I’d love to claim the title of ‘songwriter’ or ‘intellectual,’ but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.
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Intellectual Titles Truth
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
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 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
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
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
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 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
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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
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
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time

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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