Carlene Carter Quotes
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I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.