Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Loretta Lynn - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do you measure your value?

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You have to be the first, best or different.

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.

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

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

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!'

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

You have to be different, great or first.