Carpenter Song Quotes

#1. Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

Ian MacKaye

#2. I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#3. You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#4. I'm obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!

Tyra Banks

#5. Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this.

Julie Brown

#6. If he were to put his heart in my hand, he might never find it again. And I'm not cruel enough to let him break while he tries to heal the impossible.

Courtney C. Stevens

#7. Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#8. Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Life is like the drama on a stage.
What was once declared as a sin,
perhaps much worse nowadays.

Toba Beta

#10. Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.

Anonymous

#11. Getting to the end of a song is not the goal of singing.

Kate Carpenter

#12. It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#13. I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Debbie Harry

#14. States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

Pope Francis

#15. We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn't stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together.

Paula Garner

#16. Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

Karen Carpenter

#17. The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

J. Paul Getty