Loretta Lynn Quotes
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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.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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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.
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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.
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I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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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.
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She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
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I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
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I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.
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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.
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You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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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.
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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.