Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I’ve played so many shows in Colorado that I think I’m the Colorado house band.
BRANDI CARLILEColorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I’ve played so many shows in Colorado that I think I’m the Colorado house band.
BRANDI CARLILEThe purpose of it all is love.
BRANDI CARLILEPrivilege 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.
BRANDI CARLILEI 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.
BRANDI CARLILEPrivilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
BRANDI CARLILEWherever is your heart I call home.
BRANDI CARLILEThe oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
BRANDI CARLILECoffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
BRANDI CARLILESometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
BRANDI CARLILEI 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.
BRANDI CARLILEThere’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.
BRANDI CARLILEThere 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.
BRANDI CARLILEI’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.
BRANDI CARLILEEvery 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.
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.
BRANDI CARLILEBear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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