"A lot of people don't realise I..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I have little bones.”

“I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.”

“I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.”

“If you want to understand poetry,You have to go to its origin,If you want to understand the poet,You have to go to the Poet's home.”

“In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.”

“The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.”

“The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.”

“I sat upon a promontory,And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,That the rude sea grew civil at her song;And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,To hear the sea-maid's music.”

“My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.”