Loretta Lynn Quotes (77 Quotes)


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

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

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


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


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

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

    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.

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

    I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

    It's kind of like my first one, ... It's back to real country.

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

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

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

    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.

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

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

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

    Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

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

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

    You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

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

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


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

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

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

    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 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.

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

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

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

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

    His son was so young. We need to make sure what happened to his son doesn't happen to anyone else's children.

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

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

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


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