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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
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Violinist
Butcher Holler
Kentucky
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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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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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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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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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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'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
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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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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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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Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
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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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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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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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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You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
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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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