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Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes.

It’s a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they’ve connected to it. That’s what I’m after.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
Dreamland is a book, but it’s my song in book form. It’s translated itself into a different medium.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It’s because I’m curious about where they’re going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It’s not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they’re selling.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
There’s timing. And then there’s also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
I don’t think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
It’s a pretty frantic world that we live in.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I’m a liberal arts junkie.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I don’t really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
A dreamer born is a hero bred.
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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
Life is never a straight line – it’s peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
It’s a marvelous feeling when someone says ‘I want to do this song of yours’ because they’ve connected to it. That’s what I’m after.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free it’s simply because of the experiences that I’ve had, and the wisdom I’ve accumulated from that time.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy’s spell? A mystery?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
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.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.
Mary Chapin Carpenter