Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
BRANDI CARLILEThe 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.
More Brandi Carlile Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we’re born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
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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 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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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.
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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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Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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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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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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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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The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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