80 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.