Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

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• God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
• 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.
• 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…
• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
• A dreamer born is a hero bred...
• 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?
• 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…
• We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
• About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
• 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…
• I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
• Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
• I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
• Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
• 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…
• It's a pretty frantic world that we live in
• 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…
• Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
• 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…
• Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

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