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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."

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Donna Grant

"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs."

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Donna Grant

"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized."

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Donna Grant

"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."

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Donna Grant

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."

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Donna Grant

"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."

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Donna Grant

"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."

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Donna Grant

"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

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Donna Grant

"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."

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Donna Grant

"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."

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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."

Feelings

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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."

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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."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I'm a liberal arts junkie."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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