Parton's Quotes

#1. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

Jimmy Demaret

#2. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.

Robert Plant

#3. I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Dolly Parton

#4. I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

Dolly Parton

#5. There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

Dolly Parton

#6. There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

Dolly Parton

#7. '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

Dolly Parton

#8. I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

Dolly Parton

#9. 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

#10. I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool ... but that's just natural.

Dolly Parton

#11. 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

#12. You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Dolly Parton

#13. I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

Dolly Parton

#14. I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

Dolly Parton

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Dolly Parton

#17. God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

Dolly Parton

#18. They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

Dolly Parton

#19. I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

Dolly Parton

#20. You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

Dolly Parton

#21. To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

Dolly Parton

#22. It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

Dolly Parton

#23. My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Dolly Parton

#24. All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Dolly Parton

#25. I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

Dolly Parton

#26. Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things ...

Dolly Parton

#27. I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

Dolly Parton

#28. I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

Dolly Parton

#29. God made me the way that I am and it's my business to be true to that.

Dolly Parton

#30. I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Dolly Parton

#31. Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

Dolly Parton

#32. There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

Dolly Parton

#33. I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

Dolly Parton

#34. I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Dolly Parton

#35. There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Dolly Parton

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

Dolly Parton

#37. 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

#38. As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

Dolly Parton

#39. People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

Dolly Parton

#40. There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

Dolly Parton

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

Dolly Parton

#42. I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Dolly Parton

#43. People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

Dolly Parton

#44. People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

#45. There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

Dolly Parton

#46. I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Dolly Parton

#47. I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton

#48. I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Dolly Parton

#49. I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

Dolly Parton

#50. Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

Dolly Parton

#51. I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

Dolly Parton

#52. That little Miley Cyrus ... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

Dolly Parton

#53. When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.

Dolly Parton

#54. 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

#55. I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Dolly Parton

#56. People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Dolly Parton

#57. 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

#58. All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.

Dolly Parton

#59. I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Dolly Parton

#60. They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Dolly Parton

#61. I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed ...

Dolly Parton

#62. Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.

Dolly Parton

#63. 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

#64. Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Dolly Parton

#65. I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

Dolly Parton

#66. That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.

Dolly Parton

#67. My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.

Dolly Parton

#68. 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

#69. Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#70. 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

#71. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Dolly Parton

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!

Dolly Parton

#76. 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

#77. Working nine to five, what way to earn a living.
Barely getting by ... It's all taking and no giving.
They use just your mind and they never give you credit.
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!

Dolly Parton

#78. 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

#79. I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment.. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

Dolly Parton

#80. 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

#81. A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

Dolly Parton

#82. Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Dolly Parton

#83. 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

#84. I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

Dolly Parton

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

Dolly Parton

#86. I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

Dolly Parton

#87. 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

#88. I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Dolly Parton

#89. People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

Dolly Parton

#90. I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

Dolly Parton

#91. 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

#92. They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

Dolly Parton

#93. It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Dolly Parton

#94. I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

Dolly Parton

#95. I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

Dolly Parton

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

Dolly Parton

#97. I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

Dolly Parton

#98. I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Dolly Parton

#99. I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

Dolly Parton

#100. My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Dolly Parton