Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You… — 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
I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for… — 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 like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of… — 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
A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — 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
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