My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself.… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
...Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by ... — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
![“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.” quote by Dolly Parton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/116/dolly-parton-366_acting_i-think-music-and-acting-they-are-connec_35206.jpg)
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