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" I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter. "
Carlene Carter
Being
About
Family
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" I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically. "
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" I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known. "
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" I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.' "
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