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.
BRANDI CARLILEThe oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
More Brandi Carlile Quotes
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The purpose of it all is love.
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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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Wherever is your heart I call home.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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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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