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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!'

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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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 things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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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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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
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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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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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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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Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
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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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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 refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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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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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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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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