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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.
You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.
I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.
It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.
If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.
I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.
No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.
When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.
You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.
My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.