Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes - Page 2

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Age, Born, Moved

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• I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Bayonets, Cadets, Camping

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Color, Interesting, Different

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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

  Country, Able, Way

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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

  Real, Thinking, Messages

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Nashville, Listening

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• Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Stars, Children

  Song: Dreamland, Album: Party Doll And Other Favorites, 1999

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Art, Home, Figures

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Labels, Stylist

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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".

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Artist, Giving, Labels

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Smart, Phones, Years

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• When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Different, Records, World

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• The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Ideas, People, Joy

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Shy, Vote, Feels

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• I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in, and you're told you play this note, this note, and this note, and you don't vary it. I know that works great for some people. It wouldn't work for me.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Artist, Play

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Distance, Political

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• Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Rocks, Things Change

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• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Philosophical, Thinking, Today

  Song: I Feel Lucky, 1992

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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

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Life, Running, Circles

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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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Song, Single Life

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• I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

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• It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Feelings, Trying, Degrees

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• Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Song, Book, Different

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