158 Quotes by Loretta Lynn

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

You have to be different, great or first.

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.