Dolly Parton Song Quotes

#1. With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

Joan Osborne

#2. My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Dolly Parton

#3. Life is a song to me.

Dolly Parton

#4. 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.

Dolly Parton

#5. I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

Dolly Parton

#6. 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.

Dolly Parton

#7. I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

Dolly Parton

#8. When in doubt, take the next step.

Regina Brett

#9. I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.

Dolly Parton

#10. As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.

Boudleaux Bryant

#11. When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

Sam Simon

#12. You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Zig Ziglar

#13. Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

Dolly Parton

#14. I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey ... I just couldn't get enough.

Dolly Parton

#15. You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

Dolly Parton

#16. 'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.

Dolly Parton

#17. Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Jerry Seinfeld

#18. If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

Dolly Parton

#19. I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

Dolly Parton

#20. We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words.

Steve Toltz

#21. I wouldn't want to put myself up for something that I didn't think I could do a good job on. I wouldn't to direct material I didn't feel I could serve, but I don't have anything against doing bigger pictures.

Kurt Voss

#22. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time.

Dolly Parton

#23. In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

Isla Fisher

#24. Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Dolly Parton

#25. I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

Dolly Parton

#26. Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

Adam Levine

#27. I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

Dolly Parton

#28. '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Dolly Parton

#29. I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

Dolly Parton

#30. It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#31. I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

Jamie Lynn Spears

#32. I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

Dolly Parton

#33. I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Dolly Parton

#34. Also there's this thing that happens to me sometimes, and it'll usually be me watching a video of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers singing "Islands in the Stream" and I wonder if I'm crying because I have majorly unaddressed psychological reasons or if that song is really that beautiful.

Molly McAleer

#35. Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.

David Hume

#36. The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

Samuel Larsen

#37. I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.

Neko Case

#38. I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Dolly Parton