Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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.
More Brandi Carlile Quotes
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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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The purpose of it all is love.
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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’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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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.
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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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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 feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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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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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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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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