Brandi Carlile famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Song #Believe #Creativity
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
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

#Kids #Gay #Thinking
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

#Rocks #Two #Mercury
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

#Years #People #Age
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Artist #Vintage #Advice
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

#Love Life #Gay #Rights
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

#Lakes #Fishing #Cities
Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Meditation #Singing #Form
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

#Girl #Kids #Years
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

#Song #Sitting #Records
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

#Country #Our World #Rocks
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

#Thinking #Heartfelt #Singing
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
I love fishing, any kind of fishing.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Fishing #Kind
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

#Mother #Country #Father
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

#Writing #People #Feelings
Wherever is your heart I call home.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Home #Heart
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Life Lesson #Divorce #First Love
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Song #Together #Belief
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Self #Sometimes #Self Destructive
But I'm warning you, we're growing up.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Growing Up #Warning #Growing
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

#Thinking #Oasis #House
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

#Thinking #Vegas #Mind
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
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

#Years #Two #Sound
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

#Believe #Writing #Vintage
Coffee,Â whiskey, andÂ fishing poles. Thatâ€™s really all you need in life.
-- Brandi Carlile

#Coffee #Fishing #Needs

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