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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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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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.
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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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My songs are about who I am.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
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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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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 love to be surrounded by nature.
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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 matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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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 believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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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 always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.