Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it, am empowered by it, and have a deep connection to the lyrics.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.