Brandi Carlile Quotes

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

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• Nobody wants to give up good players.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Give

• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movie

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Loyalty

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.

  

  Carl Zeiss
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Stadium

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Train

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Climb

• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Society
  • Complaining

• The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Thinking
  • Innovation
  • Down

• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• I'll never put my memoirs in print.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Never
  • Print
  • Memoirs

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Song