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There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
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’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 feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
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
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
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
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
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
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 oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege Sometimes
But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I’ve learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.
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Sound Two Years

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

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