Carlene Carter Quotes
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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.
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It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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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.
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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My songs are about who I am.
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Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.