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There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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Singer-Songwriter
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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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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
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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 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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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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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?
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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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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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In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
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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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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 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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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.
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A dreamer born is a hero bred.
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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 think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
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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 don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
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