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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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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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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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'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 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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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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A dreamer born is a hero bred.
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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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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.
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As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.
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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.
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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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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
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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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It's a pretty frantic world that we live in
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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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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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 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 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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