Quotes about parton (13 Quotes)





    All the biggest country stars have played Lanierland, including George Jones and Tammy Wynette and Porter Waggoner and Dolly Parton, when the original venue was an old circus tent. I remember it leaked that night we had Porter and Dolly, ... We were sitting in the audience and a big raindrop hit me on the head.

    I got taken to her tour bus. I walked in and there's Dolly Parton - looking fabulous, by the way - with a guitar on her lap. She jumps up and takes my coat and gets me some water, and she's so nice and so shining with life, you know. And she plays me this song, and it's a fantastic song. I love it immediately. I just knew.


    I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.


    With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

    Dolly Parton may be the ultimate example of this, ... It's an aesthetic that's in your face big hair, short dresses, an emphasis on her physique, and she's making lots of money in the process. Like her, today's singers take demeaning images in Southern culture, turn it all on its head, and say, 'I'm really outsmarting you.'




    Dolly Parton has been a union member for 30 years. We don't understand why a company that has her name on it would object to its employees being recognized by the union.



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