Quotes By Loretta Lynn

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

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

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

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

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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