Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

There's no night without stars.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.

I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Without hope we are lost.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Keep hope alive!

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

Hope will never be silent.