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Loretta Lynn quotes

Ocupation: Singer-songwriter

Life: b. April 14, 1932

Birthday: April 14

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.7, Vintage

Topics: Country, Mistake, Teaching, Singer-songwriters, Teaching Children

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

source: - Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.96, Gallic Books

Topics: Song, Writing, Feelings

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

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.76, Vintage

Topics: Country, People, Looks

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

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.71, Vintage

Topics: Running, Long, Luck

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Topics: Jobs, Stars, Men

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

Topics: Funny, Baby, Witty, My Baby Boy, Baby Boy

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

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.9, Vintage

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

Topics: Different, Firsts

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

Topics: Two, Cents, Music Business, Two Cents

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

Topics: Country, Uptown, Proud

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

Topics: Believe, Mean, People, Horoscopes, Headstrong

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Topics: Car, Automobile

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

Topics: Christian, Trying, Too Much, Good Christian, Spicy

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Topics: Attitude, Simple, Men

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

Topics: Thinking

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.

Topics: Running, Pie, Tables

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

Topics: Thinking, People

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

source: - Twitter post from Aug 25, 2010

Topics: Hoping For The Best

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

Topics: Thinking, Proud, Way, Cherokee

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

Topics: Friendship, Kids, Ugly

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.

Topics: Country, Art, People, Country Music Fans, Music Fans

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.

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

Topics: Thank God, Done, Given

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

Topics: Baby, Four, Married

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

Topics: Want

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

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.12, Vintage

Topics: Easter, Perfect, Crucifixion, Nobody's Perfect, Crucifixion Of Christ

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

source: - Twitter post from Nov 23, 2010

Topics: Long, Surprise, Life And Time

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Topics: Growing Up, Gun, Kentucky, Eastern

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Topics: Running, Misery

You have to be different, great or first.

Topics: Different, Firsts

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

Topics: Talking, Cities, Trying

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

Topics: Refuse

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

Topics: Thinking, Usa, Sound

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

Topics: Singers, Language, Hillbilly

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

Topics: People

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Topics: Birthday, Hero, April

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

Topics: Mother, Barns, Want

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Topics: Lightning, Bugs, Diamond Rings

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

Topics: Halloween, Mean, Tipping

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

Topics: Pregnancy, Nervous, Poor

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.

Topics: Scotland, Mountain, England, Advertising Agencies

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.

Topics: Smile, People, Trying

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.

Topics: Marriage, Real, Kids

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.

Topics: Country, Dirty, Naughty, Dirty Secrets, Old Car

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

Topics: Country, Awards, Association

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

Topics: Usa, United States, Looks

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.

Topics: Two, Three, Sometimes

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Topics: Dishes, Retiring

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

Topics: Baby

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.

Topics: Pace, Trade, Know Me

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

Topics: Grandfather, Want, Married

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

Topics: Night, Daddy, Married

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

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.5, Vintage

Topics: Book, House, Fans, Old Houses

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

Topics: Inspirational, Different, May

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.

Topics: Two Sides, Unhappy, Sides

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

Topics: Inspired, Hillbilly

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

Topics: People, American Indian

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

source: - "What I've Learned: Loretta Lynn" By Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Topics: Inspirational, Nuts

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.

Topics: People, Missing, Quitting, I Quit

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Topics: Believe, Wish, I Believe

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

Topics: Men

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

Topics: Too Much, Poverty

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Topics: Fans, Helping, Bigs

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Topics: Winning, Awards, Nashville, Olivia, Olivia Newton John

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

Topics: Eye, Blue, Ribbons, Canning

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

Topics: Country, Years, Firsts

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

Topics: Country, Pride, Thinking

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

Topics: Real, Smart, Ghouls

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

Topics: Soldier, Littles, Saws, Toy Soldiers

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

Topics: Ocean, Moonshine, Made

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.

Topics: Careers, Stage, Feels

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

Topics: Hippie, People, Vietnam

How do you measure your value?

Topics: Values

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

Topics: Swimming, Salmon, Hungry, Swimming Upstream, Spawn

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

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

Topics: Life, Night, Dry, Stale, Last Night

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

Topics: Church, Answers, Praying

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.

Topics: Country, Eye, Cities

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

Topics: Fighting, Men, Way

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.

Topics: Teacher, Jobs, Book, Cornbread

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Topics: Land, Funny Travel, Holy, Holy Land

I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

Topics: Rooms, Six, Yeah, El Paso

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

Topics: Writing, People, Songwriting

No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

Topics: Song, White, Perfect

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

Topics: Growing Up, Sadness, Mountain

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Topics: Energy, Nervous

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.

Topics: Husband, Ideas, Singing, Make The Best Of It, Boogers

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

source: - Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.92, Vintage

You have to be the first, best or different.

Topics: Different, Firsts

If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.

source: - "Loretta Lynn: The queen of country music on 55 years in the biz". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. February 27, 2016.

Topics: Song, Writing, Eye, Gals, Black Eyes

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.

source: - "Loretta Lynn: The queen of country music on 55 years in the biz". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. February 27, 2016.

Topics: Husband, Hate, Home

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

Topics: Building

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.

Topics: Mother, Wall, Names

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.

source: - "Loretta Lynn: The queen of country music on 55 years in the biz". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. February 27, 2016.

Topics: Goodbye, Blow, Men

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