Carlene Carter Quotes

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.

My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

As a disciple of my father's, I was certain I wanted to include one of his own raga creations on 'Home', as they are so beautiful; whilst many of his creations are part of the general classical repertoire for all musicians, many more are only played by those of us who learned from him, and therefore need to be played.

I come from a family of musicians.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.

The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

The singing was something I got from my father.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.