Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Brandi Carlile
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Brandi Carlile
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: June 1
Composer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Ravensdale
Washington
Brandi M. Carlile
Brandi Marie Carlile
Come
Fuels
Thing
Fuel
Life
Pursuit
World
Spent
Sing
Goes
Impossible
Opportunity
Summing
More quotes by Brandi Carlile
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
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
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
Brandi Carlile
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.
Brandi Carlile
Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.
Brandi Carlile
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Brandi Carlile
I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.
Brandi Carlile
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
Brandi Carlile
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
Brandi Carlile
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
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
So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.
Brandi Carlile
You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.
Brandi Carlile
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
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
