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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.

~Carlene Carter

Topics: Always Aunts Back Because Carter Family Gone Grandma Known Like Mom Nothing Singing Whenever

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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.

~Carlene Carter

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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.

~Carlene Carter

Topics: Adult Band Cash Child First First Time Grown-Up Initiation Johnny Johnny Cash Part Sang Show Stage Time Touring

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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.

~Carlene Carter

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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

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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.

~Carlene Carter

Topics: Always Audience Carter Come Family Feel Friends Fright How Look Never See Stage Stage Fright Suffered Us I Feel

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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.

~Carlene Carter

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I love rock n' rollers.

~Carlene Carter

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

~Carlene Carter

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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.

~Carlene Carter

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 26th, 1955

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