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I want more out of life than I've gotten.

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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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 any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
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It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, hey, goodbye! and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.
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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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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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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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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 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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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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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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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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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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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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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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