Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is a multiple gold album American country music singer-songwriter whose work spans almost 60 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and individual artist. She remains the most awarded female country recording artist, including her being the only female ACM Artist of the Decade...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth14 April 1932
CityButcher Hollow, KY
CountryUnited States of America
You have to be different, great or first.
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
My life has run from misery to happiness.
All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.