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

Loretta Lynn

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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Butcher Holler
Kentucky
Loretta Webb
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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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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.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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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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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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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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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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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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