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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.

Brandi Carlile

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.”
BRANDI CARLILE

Animal Daughter Fishing
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Gay Issues Life Love
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Air Sleep Wine
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

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
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Father Mother
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
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 oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Oppression Problem Time
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Cities Fishing Lakes
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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House Oasis Thinking
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Guitar Song Writing
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
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
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Artist Block Stress

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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