Carlene Carter Quotes

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

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.

I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.

Growing up, we had folk records.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

Our parents were musicians.

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.

A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.