Dolly Parton Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

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

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Saying Bad Things, Momma

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010

• 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. We will always remember her fondly.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Queens, Inspiration

  "Kitty Wells blazed country path for women" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2012.

• I'm just a simple country girl.

  Dolly Parton

  Girl, Country, Country Girl

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

• I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Country, Children

• I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Jobs, Successful

  "Hello, Dolly" by Jessica Plautz, mashable.com.

• When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Writing, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Song, Writing

• Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Real, Voice

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

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Redneck, Grew Up

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2011.

• I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Real, Fake

  Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Smart, Streets

• My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Moving, Band

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Fans, Albums

• In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always been a mystery to me how people jump all over things just to criticize, condemn and judge other people when that is so un-Christian – and they claim to be good Christians! We’re supposed to love one another. We’re supposed to accept and love one another. Whether we do or not, that’s a different story. But that’s what we’re supposed to do.

  Dolly Parton

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton On Lesbian Wedding Rumors & Boob Advice, Says Drag Name Is ‘P. Titty’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. May 6, 2014.

• I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Song, Character

• 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

  Country, Real, Simple

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