Dolly Parton Quotes

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

~ Dolly Parton

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

~ Dolly Parton

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.

~ Dolly Parton

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

~ Dolly Parton

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

~ Dolly Parton

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

~ Dolly Parton

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

~ Dolly Parton

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

~ Dolly Parton

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.

~ Dolly Parton

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

~ Dolly Parton

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

~ Dolly Parton

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

~ Dolly Parton

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

~ Dolly Parton

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

~ Dolly Parton

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

~ Dolly Parton

Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can move itAnd with faith enough there's nothing I can't doAnd I can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd I can see the light of brand new dayI can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd everything's gonna be all rightIt's gonna be okay [lyrics from Light of a Clear Blue Morning]

~ Dolly Parton

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

~ Dolly Parton

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

~ Dolly Parton

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

~ Dolly Parton

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

~ Dolly Parton

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

~ Dolly Parton

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

~ Dolly Parton

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

~ Dolly Parton

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

~ Dolly Parton

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

~ Dolly Parton

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

~ Dolly Parton

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

~ Dolly Parton

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

~ Dolly Parton

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

~ Dolly Parton

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

~ Dolly Parton

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

~ Dolly Parton

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

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

~ Dolly Parton

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

~ Dolly Parton

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

~ Dolly Parton

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

~ Dolly Parton

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

~ Dolly Parton

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.

~ Dolly Parton

I was always a junk food person, still am.

~ Dolly Parton

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

~ Dolly Parton