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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

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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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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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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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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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 never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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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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My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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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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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.
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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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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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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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