The purpose of it all is love.
BRANDI CARLILEMy advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
More Brandi Carlile Quotes
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Wherever is your heart I call home.
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There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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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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Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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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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Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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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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Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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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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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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I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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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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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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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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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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