Top 39 Quotes & Sayings by Tanya Tucker

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Tanya Denise Tucker is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down", 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman", 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend", and 1992's "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane". Tucker's 2019 album While I'm Livin' won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and "Bring My Flowers Now" from that same album won Tucker a shared songwriting Grammy for Best Country Song.

American - Musician | Born: October 10, 1958

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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

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There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

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He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

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I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

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The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

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Everybody has problems.

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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

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But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

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Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

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At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!

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Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

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The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

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When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

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Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

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I have always been the life of the party. When I got to the point where I wasn't anymore, I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. Once you figure it out, you can start to fix the problem. It's a day-to-day struggle.

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Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.

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You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Dont you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

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My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.

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Top 39 Quotes & Sayings by Tanya Tucker

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