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.
BRANDI CARLILEBear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
More Brandi Carlile Quotes
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Wherever is your heart I call home.
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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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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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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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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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Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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The purpose of it all is love.
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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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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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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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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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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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Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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It’s impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That’s why I’ve spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.
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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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