American - Musician | September 26, 1955 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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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.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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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 does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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