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

Loretta Lynn

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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Violinist
Butcher Holler
Kentucky
Loretta Webb
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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'
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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.
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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.
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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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.
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When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
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Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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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.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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