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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
Upstream
Spawn
Salmon
Swimming
Hungry
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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've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
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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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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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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 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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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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Who wants to be married to a grandfather?
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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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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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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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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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're the reason our kids are ugly.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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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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