Loretta Lynn

“How do you measure your value?”

“I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.”

“A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.”

“I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.”

“We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.”

“Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.”

“My life has run from misery to happiness.”

“The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.”

“Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.”

“My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.”

“There's always been a man telling me what to do.”

“I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.”

“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.”

“I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.”

“I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.”

“In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.”

“I believe in education and wish I had a better one.”

“I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.”

“I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.”

“I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.”