"We're phonies if we're not exactly who..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.”

“I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

“I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.”

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”

“You don't have to try, you just have to be.”

“If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.”

“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”

“His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.”