Top 100 Parton Quotes
#1. I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
Casey Wilson
#2. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.
Robert Plant
#3. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original 'Steel Magnolias' with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
Matthew Moy
#4. I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then I'll indulge ... but then the next day or two I'll really be strict. I learned that from Dolly Parton, by the way!
Kimberly Schlapman
#5. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.
Henny Youngman
#6. 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
#7. Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#8. You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.
Jeff Foxworthy
#9. I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
Valerie June
#10. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton
Julie Murphy
#11. You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."
(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)
Simon Cowell
#12. I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
Johnny Gimble
#13. Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
Kevyn Aucoin
#14. Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves
#15. Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
Queen Latifah
#16. I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
Landon Donovan
#17. If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
Lou Doillon
#18. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.
Jimmy Demaret
#19. Dolly is a legend. Jessica is so beautiful. I take it as a big compliment when people put me beside them. About being compared to Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson on the Idol red carpet.
Kellie Pickler
#20. I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
Dolly Parton
#21. I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.
Tinie Tempah
#22. 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
#23. I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
Henry Rollins
#24. A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
Dean Koontz
#25. 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
#26. Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
Bob Hope
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
Laura Bell Bundy
#30. I've even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!
Heidi Montag
#31. I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
Reba McEntire
#32. Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
Barbara Mandrell
#33. Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.
Michael R. Burch
#34. If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.
Joanna Newsom
#35. I totally think there was a country hair phase. If you look at all the mullets, and Dolly Parton, and Reba's hair, Tim McGraw's hair, Blake Shelton's hair, they definitely had their moments.
Julianne Hough
#36. My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon ... We packed in everything.
Clare Bowen
#37. I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.
Eden Robinson
#38. My girl crush is Dolly Parton. I've never met her, but I keep wanting to run into her in a grocery story or something!
Kimberly Schlapman
#39. My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton!
Elle King
#40. 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
#41. I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn
#42. Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah
#43. On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'
James Parton
#44. I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
#45. I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt.
Sara Rue
#46. Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
Reese Witherspoon
#47. If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.
Kate Lebo
#48. When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.
Tom T. Hall
#49. Dolly Parton ... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.
Dom DeLuise
#50. Finally, thank you, Dolly Parton. Just because.
Amy Poehler
#51. I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.
Lexa Doig
#52. Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#53. My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
Kat Dennings
#54. The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.
David Fricke
#55. I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in person. And, you know, Dolly Parton ... I wouldn't mind seeing Dolly Parton. She's from Tennessee, I'm from Tennessee.
Juicy J
#56. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
Rich Little
#57. There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.
Taylor Swift
#58. Dolly Parton was a hero of the Rising, and I dare you to tell any red-blooded American girl who's ever felt bad about her wardrobe differently," said Governor Kilburn.
Mira Grant
#59. When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Dolly Parton
#60. I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
Dolly Parton
#61. Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
Dolly Parton
#62. I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
Dolly Parton
#63. My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.
Dolly Parton
#64. I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
Dolly Parton
#65. A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?
Dolly Parton
#66. I write for myself things that I've gone through.
Dolly Parton
#68. I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.
Dolly Parton
#69. Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
Dolly Parton
#70. Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.
Dolly Parton
#71. Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
Dolly Parton
#72. Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
Dolly Parton
#73. I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.
Dolly Parton
#74. I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!
Dolly Parton
#76. Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
Dolly Parton
#77. Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'
Dolly Parton
#79. Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
Dolly Parton
#80. I try not to go around looking like a hag.
Dolly Parton
#81. I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.
Dolly Parton
#82. 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
#84. I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.
Dolly Parton
#85. Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.
Dolly Parton
#86. I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
Dolly Parton
#87. 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.
Dolly Parton
#88. I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.
Dolly Parton
#89. I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
Dolly Parton
#90. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.
Dolly Parton
#91. 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. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
Dolly Parton
#92. I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
Dolly Parton
#93. Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
Dolly Parton
#94. I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly Parton
#95. God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
Dolly Parton
#96. Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
Dolly Parton
#97. I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
Dolly Parton
#98. Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.
Dolly Parton
#99. You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
Dolly Parton
#100. When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.
Dolly Parton
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