Quotes By Dolly Parton

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

My life has been very full.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

I'm just a simple country girl.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.