But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of authenticity in music performance compared to recorded sound.
Brandi Carlile's quote reflects her realization that live performances should capture the raw energy and spontaneity of a real musical experience, while recordings should strive to embody the vividness of a live show. This perspective prioritizes the emotional connection and atmosphere present during live music over the polished and often sterile nature of studio recordings.
In practice
Using this quote during a discussion about the difference between live and recorded music.
There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
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