Loretta Lynn Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I want more out of life than I've gotten.

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

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