Loretta Lynn Quotes
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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.
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How do you measure your value?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You either have to be first, best, or different.
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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
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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.
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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.
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You have to be the first, best or different.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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.
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You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
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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.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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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.
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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
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There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!