Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

" When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings. "

" I refuse to be pushed around anymore. "

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

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

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

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

" 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've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me. "

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

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

" You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got. "

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

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

" I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair. "

" 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. "

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

Getting Married

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

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

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

" I'd love to travel to the Holy Land. "

" I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going. "

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

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

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

" I never rode in an automobile until I was 12. "