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Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.

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.
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Country Father Mother
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
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
BRANDI CARLILE

Bears Burden Pockets
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
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
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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
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
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage
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
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
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
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
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 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

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