Quotes from Dolly Parton

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

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.

I just don't have time to get old!

George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

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

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.