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Dolly Parton
55 quotes
“They didn't understand it and I tried to make them see That one is only poor only if they choose to be Now I know we had no money but I was rich as I could be In my coat of many colors that Momma made for me Made just for me...”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My style is my soul and my feelings. I’ll tell the world in my songs what I wouldn’t have told my mother.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (people, August 25, 2026)
“Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just little And the door ain't sprung on her electric range That little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too bad Folks are doing away with the simple things...”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you please don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please don't take him just because you can”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it’s important, if you can, to keep all of your goods close to home where you can control them and know what’s happening with them. **(biography, Aug 26, 2026 10:27 AM )”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I should stay, I would only be in your way. So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.And I will always love you. I will always love you.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Will Always Love You" * “Since I had no children and my husband was an independent person, I had freedom.” ** ( igihe.com,27-08-2026 )
“Every book is a treasure, **(igihe.com,On Sep 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM )”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's been a long dark night And I've been a waitin' for the morning It's been a long hard fight But I see a brand new day a dawning.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been looking for the sunshine 'Cause I ain't seen it in so long But everything's gonna work out just fine Everything's gonna be all right That's been all wrong.'”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can see the light of a clear blue morning I can see the light of a brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Dolly Parton: Gee, She’s So Nice" (7 December 1980), by Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert
“My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Dolly Parton: Gee, She’s So Nice" (7 December 1980), by Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert
“It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tennessee Homesick Blues " a song that was featured in the soundtrack of the 1984 movie Rhinestone
“The way I dress, for the most part, is how most people would dress for a costume party. It would scare most people to death to look this cheap or whore-y, but to me, I’m comfortable. The way I look was really a country girl’s idea of what glamour was. I patterned my look after the town tramp. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world, with all that bleached hair and bright-red lipstick. People would say, ‘Oh, she’s just trash,’ and I’d think, ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up.'”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Rolling Stone (30 October 2003), as quoted in "Dolly Parton: At 57, the Country Legend Still Brims With Vitality" (28 August 2015), by Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone
“Even when I’m writing a modern song, I’ll find myself pulling stuff from those days before I ever left home, the days of Mama and Daddy and my grandmas and grandpas, and church days. All I ever have to do is close my eyes and just kind of go inside.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Rolling Stone (30 October 2003), as quoted in "Dolly Parton: At 57, the Country Legend Still Brims With Vitality" (28 August 2015), by Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone
“I look so totally artificial, but I’ve always been the simplest person in the world.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Rolling Stone (30 October 2003), as quoted in "Dolly Parton: At 57, the Country Legend Still Brims With Vitality" (28 August 2015), by Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone
“I think that if I am smart in business, it’s just that I’m smart about who I am. I know what I can, can’t, will and won’t do, and if I have to be strict about that, I will.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Rolling Stone (30 October 2003), as quoted in "Dolly Parton: At 57, the Country Legend Still Brims With Vitality" (28 August 2015), by Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone
“Do not confuse dreams with wishes. There is a difference. Dreams are where you visualize yourself being successful at what's important to you to accomplish. Now, dreams build convictions because you work hard to pay the price to make sure that they come true. Wishes are hoping good things will happen to you, but there's no fire in your gut that causes you to put everything forth to overcome all the obstacles. So you have to dream more and never, ever, ever blame somebody else if it doesn't happen. That is in your department.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Tennessee 2009" (at 6m35s), University of Tennessee, Knoxville on YouTube.
“It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Vanity Fair magazine (November 2012)
“That's my therapy; my little guitar's my friend, And when I'm in that zone – I call it my 'God zone' – I just love that time.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“I could never do that. I don't care. I always count my blessings, more than I count my money. I don't work for money, never did. It was the art, it was the job. I loved the work. And I've done well, and I'm thankful for it.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“It is true that I look artificial, but I believe that I'm totally real. My look is really based on a country girl's idea of glam. I wasn't naturally pretty, so I make the most of anything I've got.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“Well, you should've seen me this morning before I got ready to see youǃ But I'm serious, though. I'm not, like, a natural beauty. But I can enhance it. Whatever it takes, I do. I try to make the most of everything.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“I wrote a song years ago called 'In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad,' and it said, 'No amount of money could buy from me the memories that I have of then. But no amount of money could pay me to go back and live through it again.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“I guess I was about ten years old, the first time that my uncle took me to sing in front of an audience. And it was when they kept clappin' and clappin' after I had finished my song, that I thought that, you know, I felt something. I was scared, I was nervous, I'm a country little kid. But when I got that applause and got that feeling, is when I thought this is what I think I'm gonna do.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“I remember this little redheaded girl with green eyes, prettiest little thing, and I said, 'Well, what's your name?' And she said, 'Jolene.' I said, 'I love that name.' All the way back to the bus I was [singing], 'Jolene, Jolene, Jolene,' so I wouldn't forget the name.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“It wasn't meant to be. And I don't regret it. I never regretted it. I mean, it was a choice. So, you make your choices, you make your sacrifices, and I never looked back. I knew early on that I was gonna walk that road 'til God told me to stop. And I'm still walking it, and He ain't said nothing to me about quittin' yet!”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“Well, I guess I am. But I don't think of it like they do. I'm just, I'm a feminine girl. I'm a workin' girl. I think we all should be treated with respect. And if we do a good job, we should get paid for it. So, I'm all about that.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything CBS News (September 1, 2019).
“I have so many: Merle Haggard, Elton John, Billy Joel, Paul Simon. Hank Williams is one of the greatest ever because people can take his songs and do them in any fashion. They are simple, sweet songs, but they just touch your guts and reach you wherever they want to.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on the Joys of Songwriting: ‘It’s What I Do and Who I Am’ Billboard ( December 3, 2020).
“I remember feeling like all our hard work had paid off: I was going to be able to make a life in this business. I don’t remember making that much money from [“Joshua”] at that time, but I’m sure I spent it on stage clothes or my family or something like that. I remember watching it rise up the charts and thinking, “Golly, that’s such a great feeling!”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on the Joys of Songwriting: ‘It’s What I Do and Who I Am’ Billboard ( December 3, 2020).
“My guitar and my songwriting: That’s my therapy; that’s my doctors, my nurses, my medicine. I really think my music has saved me — and saved a lot of other people because I’m able to write the feelings of people who are broken and don’t know how to express it. I can do it for them, and it really seems to help. It is wonderful when you’re going through hurt to be able to write about it.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on the Joys of Songwriting: ‘It’s What I Do and Who I Am’ Billboard ( December 3, 2020).
“When I heard that huge production with Whitney’s voice, my gosh, who could even sing better than that? And David Foster’s arrangement overwhelmed me. I would have never in a million years believed that my little heartfelt song could have turned into one of the biggest love songs of all time. I was never so proud in my life as a songwriter to think that my little song could be that good and that big.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on the Joys of Songwriting: ‘It’s What I Do and Who I Am’ Billboard ( December 3, 2020).
“I don’t really realize it until it’s already said. I just answer from my heart when somebody asks me a direct question. I love everybody. And, of course, Black lives matter. We all matter. We’re all God’s children. I hope people learn to love one another a little more than they do, and if I can be any help in that respect, then I hope to be.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on the Joys of Songwriting: ‘It’s What I Do and Who I Am’ Billboard ( December 3, 2020).
“I think I’m a star to everybody but me, I always wanted to be famous, but nobody could have thought of the extent it became. I’ll see a whole wall of my pictures somewhere, and I’ll wonder ‘How did that happen?’ It’s more a joy than a surprise.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton Doesn't Believe She's Famous: 'I Think I'm a Star to Everybody but Me' People (January 8, 2025).
“I’ll go into a closet and wonder, ‘Now, what in the hell did I come in here for?', There’s nothing that makes me happier than writing a song.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton Doesn't Believe She's Famous: 'I Think I'm a Star to Everybody but Me' People (January 8, 2025).
“I think the one that’s most personal to me is the lil’ 'Coat of Many Colors,' because it talks about my mom, my parents, and kind of gives you an insight. It also covers bullying, acceptance and all that.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton Doesn't Believe She's Famous: 'I Think I'm a Star to Everybody but Me' People (January 8, 2025).
“I’ve been grateful for every good thing ever happened, God has always blessed me, surrounded me with good people. I pray that every day God will bring all the right things, all the right people, into my life.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“I’ve been at this so long, I’ve worn some of the most bizarre things – my hairdos have always been so out there, At the time you think you look good, then you look back on it, like, what was I thinking?”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“I’ve always been true to myself,” she says. “That was what my mama always used to say: to thine own self be true. I put a lot of stock in that. Everything I do, whether it’s my personality, how I conduct myself and business, or whatever, if I do it my way, according to what I understand and believe, there’s a strength in that. You can think, ‘I can stand by this, I can live by this.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“I think words and titles just have such connotations, When I think about a ‘feminist’, you think about women that are anti-men, and you think of women that have been so mistreated, they have to make some sort of a statement. I’m all about women, I’m all about empowering women, but I’m all about empowering all people – love and respect and uplifting [them].”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“Even within my own family, especially the last few years since Trump and Biden, all that, it’s like we can’t even go to a family dinner any more. Especially if people are drinking – they get in a damn fight at the table.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“This is amazing to me how people look to me, that’s a big responsibility. There ain’t nobody that good. I’m not all that. I make a joke – I’m not even all there. I try to just be a decent human being, try to use love as my great tool and weapon. I try to leave my heart, my eyes, my ears open, and my mouth closed, when I know it’s not the right thing to be doing.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“I’m almost 78 years old. When you get older, you see everything, you’ve been through everything, and you can take a new spin on something that might have been right for you 10, 15 years ago.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“My joke [is that] if I have any regrets, it’s that I got caught with some of the stuff that I had no regret about.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’ The Guardian (October 9, 2023).
“In January 2025, Dolly shared, "I think I'm a star to everybody but me... I always wanted to be famous, but nobody could have thought of the extent it became.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Following the death of her husband in March 2025, Dolly released the song "If You Hadn't Been There," expressing gratitude for his unwavering support throughout their nearly 60-year marriage”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Due to health challenges, Dolly postponed her December 2025 Las Vegas residency. She humorously referred to it as her "100,000-mile check-up," clarifying it wasn’t related to cosmetic surgery.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ((September 29, 2025)
“In October 2025, Dolly reassured fans about her health, saying, "I don’t think God is through with me... I ain't done working." She humorously added, "I ain't ready to die yet.”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolly Parton Speaks Out Amid Public Concern Over Her Health(Oct 08, 2025)