Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Loretta Lynn
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Loretta Lynn.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
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.
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
There's always been a man telling me what to do.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
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 country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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.
I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
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 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.
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
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.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
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.
The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.
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.
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.
I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
My life has run from misery to happiness.
I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
I want more out of life than I've gotten.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
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 never rode in an automobile until I was 12.
I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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