Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.”

— Dolly Parton

352. “I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.”

— Dolly Parton

353. “Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‘Jolene’ was a big hit.”

— Dolly Parton

354. “I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.”

— Dolly Parton

355. “I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.”

— Dolly Parton

356. “I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.”

— Dolly Parton

357. “My grandpa was a preacher.”

— Dolly Parton

358. “I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.”

— Dolly Parton

359. “I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.”

— Dolly Parton

360. “Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don’t condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.”

— Dolly Parton

361. “I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.”

— Dolly Parton

362. “I’ll oil wells love you. I’ll oil wells care. I’ll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.”

— Dolly Parton

363. “My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.”

— Dolly Parton

364. “I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.”

— Dolly Parton

365. “I try not to go around looking like a hag.”

— Dolly Parton

366. “Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”

— Dolly Parton

367. “I will never retire unless I have to.”

— Dolly Parton

368. “People ask me, “Do you ever run out of patience? Are you ever rude to people?” Sometimes I am. I hate when it happens, but it seems like some people just try to get on your nerves. There are times when I feel like saying something like, “Why don’t you get out of my face, you ugly woman. And take those bratty kids with you!” But at times like that I usually get all flustered. I get confused and say stupid stuff like, “Kiss my ass, that’s what you are. And don’t think I can’t do it!”

— Dolly Parton

369. “No, I can’t do rap music!”

— Dolly Parton

370. “There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.”

— Dolly Parton

371. “When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.”

— Dolly Parton

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372. “Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.”

— Dolly Parton

373. “I think that I know the value of a dollar.”

— Dolly Parton

374. “I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.”

— Dolly Parton

375. “I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!”

— Dolly Parton

376. “I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.”

— Dolly Parton

377. “I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.”

— Dolly Parton

378. “I think everyone should be with who they love.”

— Dolly Parton

379. “When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‘God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!’”

— Dolly Parton

380. “I write anywhere. I’m always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I’m doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I’ll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.”

— Dolly Parton

381. “I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.”

— Dolly Parton

382. “People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.”

— Dolly Parton

383. “Wouldn’t it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”

— Dolly Parton

384. “Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.”

— Dolly Parton

385. “I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.”

— Dolly Parton

386. “I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.”

— Dolly Parton

387. “There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.”

— Dolly Parton

388. “No one is ever successful at everything that they do.”

— Dolly Parton

389. “Every day I pray about all I do.”

— Dolly Parton

390. “I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

— Dolly Parton

391. “The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.”

— Dolly Parton

392. “Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.”

— Dolly Parton

393. “I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.”

— Dolly Parton

394. “Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.”

— Dolly Parton

395. “I always loved that old song ‘Banks of the Ohio’ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.”

— Dolly Parton

396. “I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.”

— Dolly Parton

397. “People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.”

— Dolly Parton

398. “I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.”

— Dolly Parton

399. “I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.”

— Dolly Parton

400. “I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.”

— Dolly Parton