Pilgrimage to Dollywood Quotes

“the reason musicians like Elvis mean so much to us is that their music becomes the soundtrack to our lives. ‘Blue Moon’ was playing at my first school dance. When I hear it I remember the feeling of sweaty anticipation I felt that night. Rock ’n’ roll wasn’t something you listened to. It was something you danced to. It’s about first kisses, first crushes, the creation of memories.” I”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

“It is part of Elvis’s enduring fascination to so many that his life story is always more than that; it is also a take (celebratory, critical, twisted) upon the American dream. To think about Elvis is to think about America: its history and its values.”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

“The Wizard of Oz, a master narrative of the questing journey, not only tells us that there will be disenchantment with the object of the quest, disenchantment perhaps built into any relationship that is based on idealization, but also stresses that what the seeker is really looking for is to be found in herself. Indeed, it is a cliché of the pilgrimage that it fundamentally involves the universal quest for the self.”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

“Dolly is both Cinderella and her fairy godmother, and she has no need for a Prince Charming.”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

“Poverty is only ennobling, it is implied, if one has escaped it.”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

“The Dixie Chicks are another obvious absence, and it is hard not to suspect that they are being ostracized from the museum because of lead singer Natalie Maines’s criticism of George W. Bush for America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, which provoked a storm of controversy.”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

“without Dolly Parton there would have been no Taylor Swift.”
― Helen Morales, Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee