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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
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Salmon
Swimming
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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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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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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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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 avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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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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I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
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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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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 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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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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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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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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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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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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