I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
Dolly Partonlots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.
Dolly PartonGoodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.
Dolly PartonI'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
Dolly PartonI was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly PartonIn the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.
Dolly Parton