Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Carlene Carter - Page 2

My mom is a great entertainer.

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

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love rock n' rollers.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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