Zitat des Tages von Carlene Carter:
Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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 like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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.
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 always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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.
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.
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.
I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
I don't have any regrets at all.
The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
I love rock n' rollers.
I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
You can have a big hit and not get rich.
My mom is a great entertainer.
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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.
Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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.
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've had a few ditty hits.
Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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 started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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.'
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 believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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 always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.
I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.