Carlene Carter Quotes

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

I've realized that I can do performances.

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.