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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
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Butcher Holler
Kentucky
Loretta Webb
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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.
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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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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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When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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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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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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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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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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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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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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I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.
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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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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 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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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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