Carter Quote by John Carter Cash

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

— John Carter Cash

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

— Iris DeMent

June Carter Cash is probably my all-time favorite member of the Carter Family.

— Trixie Mattel

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening…

— Petra Haden

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…

— Carlene Carter

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

— John Carter Cash

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl,…

— June Carter Cash

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…

— Carlene Carter

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…

— Carlene Carter

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…

— Carlene Carter

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

— Carlene Carter

There's nothing purer than Janette Carter with an autoharp.

— John Carter Cash

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather…

— Arto Lindsay

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I…

— Langhorne Slim

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords…

— Midge Ure