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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.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

I've had a few ditty hits.

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.

Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

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

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

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.'

I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.

If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.

I'm pretty much an open book.

My songs are about who I am.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

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.

I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.

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

I love to be surrounded by nature.

I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

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.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.

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.

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

I don't have any regrets at all.

It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.

I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.

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.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.

I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

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!'

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

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.

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

I love rock n' rollers.

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

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.

A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

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

Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

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.

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

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

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

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

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.

My mom is a great entertainer.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

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