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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

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 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 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
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
BRANDI CARLILE

Feels Sing Voice
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
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
BRANDI CARLILE

Advice Artist Vintage
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
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Across Lines Stories
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Bears Burden Pockets
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Oppression Problem Time
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
BRANDI CARLILE

Sane Self Sometimes
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
The purpose of it all is love.
BRANDI CARLILE

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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Air Sleep Wine
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

House Oasis Thinking

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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