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Brandi Carlile

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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Animal Daughter Fishing
But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I’ve learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.
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Sound Two Years
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
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
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
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
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
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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
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
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
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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
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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Cities Fishing Lakes
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

The purpose of it all is love.

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