Dolly Parton Quote by Ora-Jay Eash

“Dolly Parton to my..well, ;et's just say that the greatly endowed wagon had passed me by.”

— Rachel Hawthorne

I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

— Maren Morris

“A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.”

— Dolly Parton

I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it…

— Jay DeMarcus

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country…

— Christian Kane

After spending my pre-teen years as the singer in a bluegrass band, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of high school…

— Carly Pearce

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

— Dolly Parton

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot…

— Kacey Musgraves

“The joy of Loretta’s homecoming was overshadowed by Henry’s rage. Friends with a murderin’ savage, was she? A Comanche slut, that’s what, kissin’ on…

— Catherine Anderson

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.

— Judith Durham

“even though I don’t really like country music, sometimes, if you let it, the sound of all those people singing their hearts out can…

— Carol Rifka Brunt