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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
Carlene Carter -
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.
Carlene Carter
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter -
My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
Carlene Carter -
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
Carlene Carter -
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
Carlene Carter -
I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
Carlene Carter
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
Carlene Carter -
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
Carlene Carter -
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.
Carlene Carter -
I love rock n' rollers.
Carlene Carter -
I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
Carlene Carter -
I'm pretty much an open book.
Carlene Carter
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My mom is a great entertainer.
Carlene Carter -
I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
Carlene Carter -
The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
Carlene Carter -
My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
Carlene Carter -
My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
Carlene Carter -
MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
Carlene Carter
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
Carlene Carter -
I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
Carlene Carter -
I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
Carlene Carter -
There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
Carlene Carter