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A dreamer born is a hero bred.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
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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.
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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.
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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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.
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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
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I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.
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God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
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The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.
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Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.
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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.
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I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.
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Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.
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