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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.

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
Hungry
Supposed
Upstream
Spawn
Salmon
Swimming

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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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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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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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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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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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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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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 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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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've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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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 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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