Brandi Carlile on vintage
Brandi Carlile10 quotes“My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.”
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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.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Wherever is your heart I call home.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile 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 CarlileBrandi Carlile Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
Bobby KnightBobby Knight The purpose of it all is love.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile 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.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile The mole can’t live in your dollhouse.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile 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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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.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile Ladies, apologies, but isn’t ‘vintage’ just used stuff?
Bob SagetBob Saget My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
Ben FoldsBen Folds No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
Yves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent The gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Violet NicolsonViolet Nicolson To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
A.C. GraylingA.C. Grayling Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder