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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
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Upstream
Spawn
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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 seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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 wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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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 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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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!
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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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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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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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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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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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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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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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