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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

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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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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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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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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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