Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes - Page 2

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Age, Born, Moved

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• I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Bayonets, Cadets, Camping

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• I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Color, Interesting, Different

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• The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Able, Way

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• I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Real, Thinking, Messages

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• I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Nashville, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Stars, Children

  Song: Dreamland, Album: Party Doll And Other Favorites, 1999

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• There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Running, Philosophy, Two

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• Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Fool, Adages, Forgiven

  Song: The Better To Dream Of You, Album: A Place In The World, 1996

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• I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Sadness, Cutting, Fire

  Song: I Take My Chances, Album: Come On Come On, 1992

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• I don't remember a voice
  On a dark, lonesome road
  When I started this journey so long ago
  I was only just trying to outrun the noise
  There was never a question of having a choice

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Dark, Journey, Long Ago

  Song: The Calling, Album: The Calling

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• You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Labels, Stylist

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• So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Summer, Jobs, Home

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• I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Real, College

  "Mary-Chapin Carpenter: Country's Unlikely Star" by Eliza Wing, www.rollingstone.com. March 21, 1991.

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• As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Song, Book, Different

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• Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Rocks, Things Change

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• As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Distance, Political

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• I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Shy, Vote, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Philosophical, Thinking, Today

  Song: I Feel Lucky, 1992

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• 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

  Girl, Song, Single Life

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• Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Land, America, Foundation

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• In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Artist, Giving, Labels

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