Top 87 Carlile Quotes
#1. I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.
Richard Carlile
#2. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#3. Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.
Austin Carlile
#4. 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
#6. The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.
Richard Carlile
#7. Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life.
Brandi Carlile
#8. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#10. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#12. If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
Austin Carlile
#13. You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.
Brandi Carlile
#14. I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pushing up against the back of my heart - and because I have heart issues, they thought it was this whole big deal. So I spent a good three days in the hospital, two nights in the ICU.
Austin Carlile
#16. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#17. I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.
Austin Carlile
#18. 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
#19. I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.
Austin Carlile
#20. I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.
Austin Carlile
#21. To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
Austin Carlile
#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.
Brandi Carlile
#23. 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
#24. You're like if Brandi Carlile and Adele had a love child," Phoebe said.
Emma Scott
#25. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#26. Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.
Richard Carlile
#27. 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
#29. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#30. I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
Austin Carlile
#31. Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.
Brandi Carlile
#32. The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
Brandi Carlile
#33. 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
#34. You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them
Austin Carlile
#35. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#36. Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.
Austin Carlile
#37. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#41. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#42. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#43. I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you
Brandi Carlile
#44. 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
#45. Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.
Austin Carlile
#46. If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.
Austin Carlile
#47. LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.
Austin Carlile
#48. My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
Brandi Carlile
#49. People can say what they want but it doesn't stop me from doing what I'm crazy about doing.
Austin Carlile
#50. Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.
Austin Carlile
#51. There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
Brandi Carlile
#52. 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
#53. Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.
Brandi Carlile
#54. Singing is a form of meditation ... apparently the only one that I have command over.
Brandi Carlile
#55. My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
Brandi Carlile
#56. Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.
Brandi Carlile
#57. 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
#58. We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.
Austin Carlile
#59. Mr. Beecher used to say that the first thing for a man to do, if he would succeed in life, was to be careful to "choose a good father and mother to be born of.
John C. Carlile
#60. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#61. I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.
Brandi Carlile
#62. When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
Brandi Carlile
#63. Never understood a lot about the world ... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
Austin Carlile
#64. I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
Brandi Carlile
#65. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#66. I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.
Austin Carlile
#67. You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.
Brandi Carlile
#68. 'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.
Brandi Carlile
#69. When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.
Brandi Carlile
#70. The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.
Austin Carlile
#71. I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
Brandi Carlile
#72. It was in the darkest of my days when you took my sorrow and you took my pain
Brandi Carlile
#73. People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
Brandi Carlile
#74. The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race ...
Richard Carlile
#75. When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.
Austin Carlile
#77. 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.
Brandi Carlile
#78. It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.
Austin Carlile
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.
Austin Carlile
#83. The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
Brandi Carlile
#84. What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.
Austin Carlile
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.
Austin Carlile
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