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Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone I sing into the app for voice memo.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
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
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
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
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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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
I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, It's very you, and that made me feel good.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
A dreamer born is a hero bred.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad
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