Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, record producer, and screenwriter born on January 19, 1946, in Pittman Center.
Her work spans multiple genres, including country, pop, gospel, and bluegrass music. Over the course of her career she has accumulated eleven Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, recognition that reflects the breadth and duration of her recording output. She has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, adding to a list of honors that cuts across both the music and entertainment industries.
In 2022, Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Her roles have extended well beyond performing and recording — she has worked as a record producer and screenwriter, and her business ventures have run alongside her creative ones. Her philanthropic work has also formed a consistent part of her public life, placing her activities in a wider civic context that goes beyond the stage and the studio.
Gospel and bluegrass remain recurring threads in her musical identity, sitting alongside her work in pop, and it's that range across genres that has defined much of her output as both a singer and a songwriter.
Quotes by Dolly Parton
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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 a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fighting words.
A brave little soldier / I'm a brave little soldier / I must fight, I must win / I'm a brave little soldier / Through hell and back again / I'm a brave little soldier.
People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don't know, I'm never there.
Somehow you justify mistakes / Try to find some better way / To solve the problems day to day / In the family
You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
You take the trouble as it comes / And love 'em more than anyone / Good or bad or indifferent / It's still family
And when it's family, you trust them / And your heart's an open door / When it's family, you tolerate / What you'd kill others for
When it's family, you forgive them / For they know not what they do / When it's family, you accept them / 'Cause you have no choice but to