Loretta Lynn Quotes

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.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

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.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

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.

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.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

How do you measure your value?

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

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.

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.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

You have to be different, great or first.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

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.

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.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

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.

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.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.

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.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

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.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

I want more out of life than I've gotten.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.