Carlene Carter Quotes
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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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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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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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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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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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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 don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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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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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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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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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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My songs are about who I am.
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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 fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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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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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 believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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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 like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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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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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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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.
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.