Best Brandi Carlile Quotes & Sayings

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do. — Brandi Carlile

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am. — Brandi Carlile

You're like if Brandi Carlile and Adele had a love child," Phoebe said. — Emma Scott

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music. — Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. — Brandi Carlile

Wherever is your heart I call home. — Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. — Brandi Carlile

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time. — Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from. — Brandi Carlile

Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what. — Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. — Brandi Carlile

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old. — Brandi Carlile

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art. — Brandi Carlile

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That's really all you need in life. — Brandi Carlile

It was in the darkest of my days when you took my sorrow and you took my pain — Brandi Carlile

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind. — Brandi Carlile

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind. — Brandi Carlile

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them. — Brandi Carlile

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models. — Brandi Carlile

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love. — Brandi Carlile

There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty. — Brandi Carlile

The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals. — Brandi Carlile

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day. — Brandi Carlile

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing. — Brandi Carlile

When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people. — Brandi Carlile

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took. — Brandi Carlile

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression. — Brandi Carlile

There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation. — Brandi Carlile

I love fishing, any kind of fishing. — Brandi Carlile

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work. — Brandi Carlile

The mole can't live in your dollhouse. — Brandi Carlile