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Brandi Carlile

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

People Powerful Thinking
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
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’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 CARLILE

Believe Vintage Writing
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’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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Intellectual Titles Truth
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
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Sane Self Sometimes
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
BRANDI CARLILE

Creator Purpose Redeemer
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Issues Our World
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Believe Creativity Song
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
Wherever is your heart I call home.
BRANDI CARLILE

Call Heart Home
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Mind Thinking Vegas
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice

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