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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
Written by Carlene Carter
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
Written by Carlene Carter
I've had a few ditty hits.
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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.
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Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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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.'
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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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.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.
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If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
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I'm pretty much an open book.
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My songs are about who I am.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
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I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
Written by Carlene Carter

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