Dolly Parton Songteller Quotes

“My coat of many colors that my mama made for me,
Made only from rags, but I wore it so proudly.
Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be.
In my coat of many colors my mama made for me.
Made just for me.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I think it’s so important to instill in children to have faith and to know there are great things out there. Greatness is out there, greatness you can tap into. But it has to start from in your heart.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“Nothing’s ever easy. If it is, it ain’t worth it.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“That’s when I thought, “Well, I have to believe in me.” And I believe that all of us can do whatever it is that we set out to do.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“Greatness is out there, greatness you can tap into. But it has to start from in your heart.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I just like horny songs.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I have to write. I know they're not all good. It's just like you've got children, they're not all pretty.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“Ialways had something inside me that believed I had something important to do. I didn’t know exactly what that was.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“At the end of the day, I hope that I will be remembered as a good songwriter. The songs are my legacy.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I have often said that my songs are my children and that I expect them to support me when I’m old. Well, I am old, and they are!”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“But I learned years ago that people aren’t interested in the process. You have to wait until the song is done.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I just go into my “God space.” Most songwriters have a zone that they go into. I call it my spiritual zone. I feel like I’m closest to God when I write. I have to leave myself open for the songs to come in or go out. But God doesn’t hand you everything. You have to do the work. Still, every once in a while, something special happens. A great line will just come to me, and I’ll go, “Hey, thank You, Lord. I know I didn’t think of that.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“just go into my “God space.” Most songwriters have a zone that they go into. I call it my spiritual zone. I feel like I’m closest to God when I write. I have to leave myself open for the songs to come in or go out. But God doesn’t hand you everything. You have to do the work. Still, every once in a while, something special happens. A great line will just come to me, and I’ll go, “Hey, thank You, Lord. I know I didn’t think of that.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“Every day, I ask God to let me uplift people, to glorify Him. I want people to feel and see Him through me.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“And Lady Luck, she’ll lead you on. She’ll stay awhile, & then she’s gone.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“We live a pretty peaceful life, actually.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“DOLLY INCLUDED THIS SONG ON HER Blue Smoke collection of 2014. “Try” is also a cornerstone song on the soundtrack of a 2020 Netflix original musical Christmas on the Square.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

“I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn’t play on the radio, but I didn’t care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, “I shouldn’t have done that.” Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.”
― Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics