Carlene Carter Quotes
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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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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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 challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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My songs are about who I am.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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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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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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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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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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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 believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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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'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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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.