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Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter Books

Singer-songwriter

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American country music singer-songwriter known for her emotive voice and infectious songs. Since the release of her debut album in 1987, she has won five Grammy Awards and is celebrated for her unique musical style and her focus on social issues.

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“Where do shadows fall when there is only light.”

Shadow And Light Quotes About Shadows And Light

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“You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad”

Knows Causes Lonely

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Country Deals Records Listening Grew Grew Up Happenings Introduction Nashville

Author: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.”

I Can Young Guitar Grades Playing Guitar Ukulele Scribbles

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Trying Helping Feelings Certain Felt My Own Happened Degrees Inevitable Addresses Navigate Illuminating Cathartic

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Trying Years Littles I Can Use Bigs Voice Records Smart Years Ago Phones Radio Tape Deck Apps Handy Memos

Author: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.”

Way Feels Writing Littles Bits Term Habit Creatures Little Bit Creatures Of Habit

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

People Ideas Joy Studios

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

People Knows Country Play Artist Three Walks Ethics Notes Work Ethic Session Vary

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."”

Thinking Want Trying Bits Musician Fellows Again And Again Perfectionist Hold Me

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Ifs Feels Wells Different Might Interesting Color Creatures Studios Holograms

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Way Feels Country Able Music Is Connected Storytelling Niche Bedrock

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Country Rocks Pops Genre Things Change

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Different Country Political Elements Distance Genre Spectrum Different Times Genres Of Music Political Spectrum

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Ifs Knows Feels Vote Shy

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.”

Thinking Real Hard Shows Messages Songwriting Pedantic

Author: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.”

Knows Feels Writing Made Song Feel Good

Author: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.”

People Thinking Certain Stage Fronts Position Skills Studios Piano Invigorating Amazing Experiences

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.”

People Ifs Feels Play Able Stage Incredibles Privilege Get Up Granted

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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".”

Ifs Giving Artist Gone Late Shots Labels 80s

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

World Feels Different Happens Records How You Feel Different Worlds

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

People Thinking Way Wanted Desire Opportunity Felt Pressure

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.”

Forgiveness Forgiving God Forgives

Author: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.”

Want Feelings Song Music Appreciation Connected Marvelous

Author: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.”

Age Young Poverty Travel Europe India Extraordinary Fortunate My Sister Funny Travel Asia Young Age Unspeakable Athens Extraordinary Beauty

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Thinking Way Feels Today Lucky Philosophical Winner Coins Flip

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“A dreamer born is a hero bred.”

Love Dream Born Hero Dreamer

Author: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?”

Want Life Persons Life Is Lines Valleys Straight Lines Peaks And Valleys

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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”

Ifs Knows Life Sometimes Shows Seems Running Wonder Losing Track Circles Spite Maps Routes Arrows

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly?”

World Life Inspirational Heart Soul Given Stars Walks Sky This World Wings Rising Pairs Horizon Compass Azure

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of gravity or just the lure of life, Made me want to leave my only home tonight. I'm just wondering how we know where we belong Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn Singing in between here and gone”

Knows Way Want Life Feels Made Home Earth Nature Wonder Gone Path Moon Travel Singing Bird Shadow Weight Leaving Dawn Tonight Gravity Lawns Arcs Lure Firefly

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.”

Inspirational Two Given Two Lives

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Age Born Ten Moved

Author: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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Feelings Careers Five Years Ago Five Years Versus

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.”

Remember Singing Folks

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Book Different Form Song Mediums Dreamland

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?”

Thinking Knows Needs Children Clear Stupid Dumb

Author: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.”

World America Land Mines Foundation Campaigns Vietnam Veteran Free World Emmys Vietnam Veteran

Author: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.”

Thinking Heart Soul Moments Able Felt Chance Records My Heart Privilege That Moment Just Being Heart And Soul Moments In Time

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“It's a pretty frantic world that we live in”

Author: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.”

People Should Education Fate Safe Disagree Playing It Safe

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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.”

Helping Stars Grace Maps Strings Flashlights Amazing Grace Best Laid Plans

Author: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.”

Knows Remember Song Girl Isolation Single Life Single Girl

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

World Children Girl Stars Boys Sky Bed Around The World Whispering Boy And Girl Sleepy Lullaby

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?”

Light Mystery Spells Gypsy

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“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”

“Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45's Every sunset in the sky 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 Maybe what we leave Is nothing but a tangled little mystery Maybe what we take Is nothing that has ever had a name”

Littles Book Helping Names Stars Music Grace Plans Mystery Sky Sunset Maps Strings Faded Tangled Postcards Flashlights Telegrams Amazing Grace Best Laid Plans

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...”

Light Goes On Moon

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“And I can tell by the way you're searching For something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come to the table Simply glad that you came And when you feel like this try to imagine That we're all like frail boats on the sea Just scanning the night for that great guiding light Announcing the Jubilee”

Way Feels Trying I Can Light Able Night Names Imagine Sea Havens Tables Glad Boat Imagine That Frail Announcing Guiding Light Jubilee Scanning

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And gazed once more on a bright morning star I walked outside and every bird was singing As I found again my bright morning star”

Found Stars Morning Doors Singing Bird Window Heavy

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

About the Author

Born: February 21, 1958
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 65

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