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Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."

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Amber Hurdle

"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."

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Amber Hurdle

"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't like singing before noon."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the last century, everybody was singing lower."

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Amber Hurdle

"Singing becomes a form of therapy."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here."

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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
"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."

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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."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."

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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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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."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."

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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
"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."

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