Dolly Parton Quotes

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I walk tall I got a tall attitude.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago, ' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home.