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- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a few ditty hits.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Marry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty much an open book.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My songs are about who I am.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
- Anymore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to be surrounded by nature.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any regrets at all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
- Experiment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
- Okay
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!'
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be yourself. And every person is unique.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rock n' rollers.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a great entertainer.
- Big Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020