Recently, I came across a quote I really liked by Loretta Lynn (“You have to be first, different, or great. If you’re one of them, you may make it.“). It made me think about some of her other quotes and then I remembered that some of my all time favorite quotes are actually by Lady Parton (Dolly’s had some beauts).
Long story, short – I searched out quotes by other Country Music legends and came up with the following. If you have any to add, leave them in the comments!
Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best. - Loretta Lynn
I don’t like to talk about things where you’re going to get one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics. – Loretta Lynn
A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world. – Charley Pride
I don’t care what the religion is called; as far as I’m concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them. – Charley Pride
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another-I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. – Charley Pride
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I’m Charley Pride, country singer. Period. – Charley Pride
I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that. – Dolly Parton
I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it. – Dolly Parton
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton
Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton
When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next. – Dolly Parton
You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try. – Dolly Parton
Just keep taking chances and having fun. – Garth Brooks
You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy. – Garth Brooks
Be different, stand out, and work your butt off. – Reba McEntire
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. – Reba McEntire
Life ain’t always beautiful, but it’s a beautiful ride. – Gary Allan
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. – Gary Allan
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. – Johnny Cash
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. – Johnny Cash
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. – Johnny Cash
You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way. – Johnny Cash
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson
You learn the most from life’s hardest knocks. – Conway Twitty
I’ve become a captive of my own ambitions. – Patsy Cline
I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time. – Freddy Fender
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There’s one more argument for birth control. – Freddy Fender
Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday. – Faith Hill
I don’t let things go unless I’m ready for them to go. – Faith Hill
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. – Faith Hill
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great. – Kenny Rogers
Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don’t want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I’m still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad. – Toby Keith
I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin’ like myself. – Hank Williams
