Mary Chapin Carpenter famous quotes

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

#Appreciation #Song #Feelings

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Heart #Wings #Soul

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Lonely #Causes

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

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Children #Thinking #Dumb

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 #Campaigns

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Heart #Thinking #Soul

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#World

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Education #Fate #People

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Stars #Grace #Maps

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

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Singing #Remember #Folks

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 #Careers #Years

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Europe #Age #Athens

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Philosophical #Thinking #Today

A dreamer born is a hero bred...
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Love #Dream #Hero

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Life #Lines #Want

Sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to know when to straighten right out... I could wonder if all of it led me to you I could show you the arrows and circles I drew I didn't have a map, it's the best I could do On the fly and on the run
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Life #Running #Circles

In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly?
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Inspirational #Life #Stars

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Age #Born #Moved

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #God Forgives

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Inspirational #Regret #Chance

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Bayonets #Cadets #Camping

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Fool #Adages #Forgiven

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

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Thinking #Careers

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Song #Self #World

I'm a liberal arts junkie.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Art #Liberal Arts #Junkie

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

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Art #Home #Figures

I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And gazed once more on a bright morning star I walked outside and every bird was singing As I found again my bright morning star
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Morning #Stars #Doors

And I can tell by the way you're searching For something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come to the table Simply glad that you came And when you feel like this try to imagine That we're all like frail boats on the sea Just scanning the night for that great guiding light Announcing the Jubilee
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Night #Sea #Names

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Moon #Light #Goes On

Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky Carry with you maps and string, flashlights Friends who make you sing And stars to help you find your place Music, hope and amazing grace Maybe what we leave Is nothing but a tangled little mystery Maybe what we take Is nothing that has ever had a name
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Stars #Book #Sunset

Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of gravity or just the lure of life, Made me want to leave my only home tonight. I'm just wondering how we know where we belong Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn Singing in between here and gone
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Life #Home #Firefly

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Inspirational #Two #Given

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

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Light #Gypsy #Mystery

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

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 #Voice

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

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

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Jobs #Real #College

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Music #Thinking #Artist