Carlene Carter Quotes

Carlene Carter

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 26, 1955

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

My songs are about who I am.

Carlene Carter

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

Carlene Carter

I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

Carlene Carter

I don't have any regrets at all.

Carlene Carter

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.

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I love rock n' rollers.

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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.

Carlene Carter

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

Carlene Carter

I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

Carlene Carter

Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

Carlene Carter

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

Carlene Carter

Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.

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 wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

Carlene Carter

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 don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.

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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

Carlene Carter

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.

Carlene Carter