Tanya Tucker Quotes

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

Everybody has problems.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.