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Music Quotes by Dolly Parton

42 Music quotes by Dolly Parton

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Music is my personal addiction, a door to every dream and success I have achieved. The quotes talk about writing songs to capture memories, the link between music and acting, and the joy of performing live with an audience. They also mention the influence of country legends and the drive to keep making records even without fancy resources.

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'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.

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No, I can't do rap music!

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The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

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

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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

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I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

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I love story songs because I've always loved books.

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My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

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The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me…

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...Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by ...

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Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

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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…

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When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding,…

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Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself.…

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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…

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All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the…

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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was…

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I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it,…

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My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the…

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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real…

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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was…

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I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a…

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I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's…

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If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

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I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and…

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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…

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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the…

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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for…

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Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage…

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I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like…

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I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved…

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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone,…

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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…

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I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music…

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Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write…

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I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

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