Quotes Mary C. Carpenter

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, mov...

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years...

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's tra...

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Vet...

I couldn't get any tour support, and I couldn't get any adva...

I didn't get married until I was 44. I never really thought ...

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

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely h...

I kept my day job for two years while I had a major label de...

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real ...

I say that to encourage people, because I think it's importa...

I think every time you have the opportunity to be associated...

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what...

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go wor...

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an...

I'm a 46-year old artist and I started making music almost t...

I'm a liberal arts junkie....

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and t...

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

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are sin...

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and E...

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the on...

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my ca...

There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the ...

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically....