Best quotes by Carlene Carter on Family

Checkout quotes by Carlene Carter on Family

  • 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.
    - Carlene Carter
  • 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.'
    - Carlene Carter
  • I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
    - Carlene Carter
  • 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.
    - 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 are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
    - Carlene Carter
  • 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.
    - 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 questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.
    - Carlene Carter