Quotes by Loretta Lynn

“My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.”

“I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.”

“I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.”

“My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.”

“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.”

“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.”

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

“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.”

“She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and alway...”

“Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor but we had love That's the one thing that daddy made sure of He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.”

“Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well, the well where I drew water The work we done was hard At night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired I never thought of ever leaving Butcher...”

“Well a lot of things have changed since a way back then And it's so good to be back home again Not much left but the floor, nothing lives here anymore Except the memory of a coal miner's daughter.”

“I come from Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and I ain't never forgot it. I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States — and I think maybe it is. I've traveled a...”

“This might give you an idea of how backward we are, but first, to appreciate this story, you've got to know that in eastern Kentucky we say the word press instead of closet. Anyway, one of my best ...”

“Sure, I wanted men to like me, but the women were something special. They'd come around the bus after the show and they'd ask to talk to me. They felt I had the answers to their problems because my...”