Top 80 Loretta Lynn Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle’s idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I’m out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.”

— Loretta Lynn

52. “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.”

— Loretta Lynn

53. “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.”

— Loretta Lynn

54. “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.”

— Loretta Lynn

55. “Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.”

— Loretta Lynn

56. “There’s more women stars in Nashville all the time. They’re proving they can do the job the same as a man.”

— Loretta Lynn

57. “A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.”

— Loretta Lynn

58. “I’m always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.”

— Loretta Lynn

59. “Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn’t trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.”

— Loretta Lynn

60. “Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.”

— Loretta Lynn

61. “I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.”

— Loretta Lynn

62. “Really, I don’t know what I’d do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?”

— Loretta Lynn

63. “I’ve seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.”

— Loretta Lynn

64. “I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I’m there. But when I leave, I just start crying.”

— Loretta Lynn

65. “I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.”

— Loretta Lynn

66. “I’d love to work more with the American Indians, my people.”

— Loretta Lynn

67. “Who wants to be married to a grandfather?”

— Loretta Lynn

68. “I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.”

— Loretta Lynn

69. “I think I reach people because I’m with them, not apart from them.”

— Loretta Lynn

70. “I was married when I wasn’t quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.”

— Loretta Lynn

71. “There’s always been a man telling me what to do.”

— Loretta Lynn

72. “If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it’s none of their business!”

— Loretta Lynn

73. “I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.”

— Loretta Lynn

74. “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.”

— Loretta Lynn

75. “Why leave the nut you got for one you don’t know?”

— Loretta Lynn

76. “A lot of people say I’d miss show business if I quit. I’d miss some of it. Now it’s the only life I know.”

— Loretta Lynn

77. “When I’d tell people I like country music they’d get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.”

— Loretta Lynn

78. “I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.”

— Loretta Lynn

79. “I wasn’t for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.”

— Loretta Lynn

80. “I avoid going through places where there’s too much poverty.”

— Loretta Lynn

81. “Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It’s the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.”

— Loretta Lynn

82. “I’ve seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I’m proud I was there when it happened.”

— Loretta Lynn

83. “I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.”

— Loretta Lynn

84. “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.”

— Loretta Lynn

85. “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

86. “Well, friends, nobody owns nothing in this world. Even your breath is just loaned to you.”

— Loretta Lynn

87. “Some of these new country singers aren’t really country. I think some of them ought to be singing pop music and just leave country alone. You don’t have to see them, you can hear it. It is what it is, I guess, but I’d still rather they just let the ones that sing country sing country.”

— Loretta Lynn

88. “Well, shoot, I don’t believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can’t. In God’s eyes, there’s no double standard.”

— Loretta Lynn

89. “Liquore just don’t mix with love.”

— Loretta Lynn