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Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Brandi Carlile

You can’t change people, but most importantly, unless you’re their momma, you don’t even know what’s best for them.
BRANDI CARLILE

Change Momma People
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
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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
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
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
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
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
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
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
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 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
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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Creator Purpose Redeemer
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

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