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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

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Tanya Tucker
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 10
Musical Artist
Musician
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Seminole
Texas
Tanya Denise Tucker
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Dont you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
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The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
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Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.
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Everybody has problems.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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