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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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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Loretta Lynn
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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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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.
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I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
Loretta Lynn
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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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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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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 never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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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.
Loretta Lynn
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In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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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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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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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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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
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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.
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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.
Loretta Lynn