Dolly Parton Quotes
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I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.
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I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
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Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
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I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.
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I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
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I can't do nothing just a little.
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Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.
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All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
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I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.
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Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
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The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!
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No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
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You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.
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Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!
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I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
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After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.
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My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.
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My mistakes are no worse than yours.
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I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.
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I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud