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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.

Brandi Carlile

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
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
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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Fuel Opportunity World
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
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Creator Purpose Redeemer
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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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Country Father Mother
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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Gay Issues Life Love
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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Intellectual Titles Truth
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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Animal Daughter Fishing
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
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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Believe Vintage Writing
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
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 tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.
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Records Sitting Song
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
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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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Guitar Song Writing
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
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
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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Arrogant Art Compartmentalizing Music Next
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I’m feeling verbally communal with other people. It’s out there and I feel so much better about it.
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Communal Feelings Happen People Writing
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
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
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
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

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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