Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.' — Carlene Carter Doing Copy Share Image
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood. — Carlene Carter Blood Copy Share Image
I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically. — Carlene Carter Always Copy Share Image
I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it. — Carlene Carter Butt Copy Share Image
I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt. — Carlene Carter Being Copy Share Image
I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability. — Carlene Carter Ability Copy Share Image
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it. — Carlene Carter Me Copy Share Image
When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with… — Carlene Carter Always Copy Share Image
I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to… — Carlene Carter Back Copy Share Image
The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all. — Carlene Carter Albums Copy Share Image
In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too… — Carlene Carter Country Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am… — Carlene Carter Body Copy Share Image
I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep… — Carlene Carter Fear Copy Share Image
MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have… — Carlene Carter Enough Copy Share Image
I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was… — Carlene Carter Alive Copy Share Image
It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There… — Carlene Carter Always Copy Share Image
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… — Carlene Carter Picking Copy Share Image
I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people. — Carlene Carter Bunch Copy Share Image
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young. — Carlene Carter About Copy Share Image
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time. — Carlene Carter Cry Copy Share Image
Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt. — Carlene Carter Ancestors Copy Share Image
I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots. — Carlene Carter Denied Copy Share Image
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out. — Carlene Carter Forgot Copy Share Image
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. — Carlene Carter Be yourself Copy Share Image
