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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.

Brandi Carlile

Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
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 tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.
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Records Sitting Song
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage
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
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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Gay Issues Life Love
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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Across Lines Stories
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
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 CARLILE

Audience Definitions Sure
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
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
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
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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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Fuel Opportunity World
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

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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