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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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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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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Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
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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
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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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