Loretta Lynn Quotes

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

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

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?