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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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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.
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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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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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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.
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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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It's a pretty frantic world that we live in
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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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Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.
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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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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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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
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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.
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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.
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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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