Loretta Lynn Quotes

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I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

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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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I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

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Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

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I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

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

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

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

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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

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

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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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We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

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

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Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

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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.

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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

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You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

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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 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.

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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

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I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

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

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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

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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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Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

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

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

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