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The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Brandi 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.
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Audience Definitions Sure
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
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 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
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
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
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.
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Mind Thinking Vegas
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
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 purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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
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 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
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage

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