Carlene Carter Quotes

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

It's very important to me to stay true to who I am as a musician and the songs that I love.

I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.

I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.