Loretta Lynn Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

You have to be different, great or first.

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

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

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!'

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.

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

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.

How do you measure your value?

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

You have to be the first, best or different.

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.

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

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

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

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