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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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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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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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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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Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
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God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
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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 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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A dreamer born is a hero bred.
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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
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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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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 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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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
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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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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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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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Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
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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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