Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.”

— Dolly Parton

352. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

354. “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

355. “No, I can’t do rap music!”

— Dolly Parton

356. “My grandpa was a preacher.”

— Dolly Parton

357. “You are the song of every bird, you are the poet’s every word, every artist’s picture, every writer’s play.”

— Dolly Parton

358. “I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

360. “I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

363. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

369. “A lot of my own relatives didn’t get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn’t read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

371. “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

372. “I don’t have anything to say about other people’s art and their work.”

— Dolly Parton

373. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

375. “A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

377. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

381. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

388. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

391. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

393. “I’m very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.”

— Dolly Parton

394. “I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.”

— Dolly Parton

395. “There are some loony people in this world!”

— Dolly Parton

396. “I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.”

— Dolly Parton

397. “I enjoy the way I look, but it’s a joke.”

— Dolly Parton

398. “A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.”

— Dolly Parton

399. “It’s great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.”

— Dolly Parton

400. “I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair.”

— Dolly Parton