Brandi Carlile Quotes

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• Wherever is your heart I call home.

  Brandi Carlile

  Home, Heart

  Song: Wherever Is Your Heart, Album: The Firewatcher's Daughter, 2015

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• The purpose of it all is love.

  Brandi Carlile

  Purpose

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

  Brandi Carlile

  Eye, Hurricanes, Standing

  Song: The Eye, Album: The Firewatcher's Daughter, 2015

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• Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

  Brandi Carlile

  Pockets, Bears, Burden

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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• 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

  Who I Am, Stories, Lines

  Song: The Story

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• There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

  Brandi Carlile

  Purpose, Creator, Redeemer

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• 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

  Believe, Writing, Growing

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

  Brandi Carlile

  Growing Up, Warning, Growing

  Song: Turpentine, Album: The Story, 2007

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• 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

  Country, Soul, Complacency

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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• 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

  People, Momma, Can't Change

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Definitions, Not Sure, Audience

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

  Brandi Carlile

  Problem, Oppression, Our Time

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

  Brandi Carlile

  Dying, Forget You, Born

  Song: Cannonball, Album: The Story, 2007

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• 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

  Song, People, Stories

  "Brandi Carlile on Her New Live Album, Admiration for Elton John and Thoughts on Lady Gaga". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.

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• The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

  Brandi Carlile

  Moles, Dollhouses

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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• Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

  Brandi Carlile

  Self, Sometimes, Sane

  Song: My Song, Album: The Story, 2007

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• Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

  Brandi Carlile

  Meditation, Singing, Form

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Love Life, Gay, Issues

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• 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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  Opportunity, Fuel, World

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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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  Powerful, Thinking, People

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

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  Coffee, Fishing, Needs

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• 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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  Girl, Running, Dad

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• 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

  Intellectual, Titles, Truth Is

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• 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

  Daughter, Animal, Fishing

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

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  Lakes, Fishing, Cities

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