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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

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
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
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
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. 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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Complacency Country Soul
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
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
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Complacency Privilege 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
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
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 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
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
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Bears Burden Pockets
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
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 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
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

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