Top 32 Best Brandi Carlile Quotes
#2. 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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#3. My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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#4. 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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#5. I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you
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#6. When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.
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#7. I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.
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#8. I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.
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#13. 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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#14. The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
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#15. Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.
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#16. 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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#17. People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.
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#18. 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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#19. When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.
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#20. You're like if Brandi Carlile and Adele had a love child," Phoebe said.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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.
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#24. I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.
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#25. You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.
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#27. It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.
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#29. My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.
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#30. Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life.
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#32. 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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