Loretta Lynn famous quotes

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

#Country #Mistake #Teaching

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Song #Writing #Feelings

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

#Country #People #Looks

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

#Running #Long #Luck

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Jobs #Stars #Men

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

#Funny #Baby #Witty

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

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
-- Loretta Lynn

You either have to be first, best, or different.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Different #Firsts

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

#Two #Cents #Music Business

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

#Country #Uptown #Proud

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Believe #Mean #People

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Car #Automobile

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

#Christian #Trying #Too Much

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

#Attitude #Simple #Men

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

#Thinking

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Running #Pie #Tables

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

#Thinking #People

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Hoping For The Best

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Thinking #Proud #Way

You're the reason our kids are ugly.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Friendship #Kids #Ugly

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Country #Art #People

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Thank God #Done #Given

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Baby #Four #Married

I want more out of life than I've gotten.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Want

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Easter #Perfect

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Long #Surprise #Life And Time

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

#Growing Up #Gun #Kentucky

My life has run from misery to happiness.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Running #Misery

You have to be different, great or first.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Different #Firsts

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

#Talking #Cities #Trying

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Refuse

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

#Thinking #Usa #Sound

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Singers #Language #Hillbilly

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.
-- Loretta Lynn

#People

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

#Birthday #Hero #April

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Mother #Barns #Want

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Lightning #Bugs #Diamond Rings

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

#Halloween #Mean #Tipping

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

#Pregnancy #Nervous #Poor

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Scotland #Mountain #England

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Smile #People #Trying

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Marriage #Real #Kids

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Country #Dirty #Naughty

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

#Country #Awards #Association

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

#Usa #United States #Looks

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Two #Three #Sometimes

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

#Dishes #Retiring

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

#Baby

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Pace #Trade #Know Me

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
-- Loretta Lynn

#Grandfather #Want #Married

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Night #Daddy #Married

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Book #House #Fans

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

#Inspirational #Different #May

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Two Sides #Unhappy #Sides

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Inspired #Hillbilly

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

#People #American Indian

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

#Inspirational #Nuts

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#People #Missing #Quitting

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Believe #Wish #I Believe

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

#Men

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

#Too Much #Poverty

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

#Fans #Helping #Bigs

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

#Winning #Awards #Nashville

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

#Eye #Blue #Ribbons

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Country #Years #Firsts

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

#Country #Pride #Thinking

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

#Real #Smart #Ghouls

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

#Soldier #Littles #Saws

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

#Ocean #Moonshine #Made

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Careers #Stage #Feels

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

#Hippie #People #Vietnam

How do you measure your value?
-- Loretta Lynn

#Values

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

#Swimming #Salmon #Hungry

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

#Life #Night #Dry

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Church #Answers #Praying

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Country #Eye #Cities

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

#Fighting #Men #Way

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Teacher #Jobs #Book

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Land #Funny Travel #Holy

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Rooms #Six #Yeah

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

#Writing #People #Songwriting

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.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Song #White #Perfect

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

#Growing Up #Sadness #Mountain

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

#Energy #Nervous