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

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

I don’t go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

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

I don’t know what it’s like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you’ve got to continue to grow...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find ’em, kill ’em.

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.

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

I lost a son, too, so I can relate.

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

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

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

His son was so young. We need to make sure what happened to his son doesn’t happen to anyone else’s children.

I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

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

It’s kind of like my first one, … It’s back to real country.

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.

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

My life has run from misery to happiness.

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.

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

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

Fist City.

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

How do you measure your value?

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

I was shocked when they nominated me for five different things,

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

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

I just can’t wait to come back, but what hurts me most, honey, is having to leave, … That’s home for me up there. All my memories are there and all my kids’ memories are...

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

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.