Dolly Parton Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

  Dolly Parton

  Struggle, Writing, People

• In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Bridges

• As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know, so I can write a positive song like 'Better Get to Livin'' because that's my attitude. But that doesn't mean I'm happy all the time. You can't be a deep and serious songwriter without feelings. You kinda have to live with your feelings out on your sleeve and get hurt more than most people. The fear I might get hurt means I might not be able to write another song.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Hurt, Attitude

• I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.

  Dolly Parton

  Uplifting, Attitude, Writing

• 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

  Writing, Divorce, People

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2011.

• 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

  Dad, Smart, Writing

• If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Giving Up, Husband

• I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

  Dolly Parton

  Writing, Thinking, Musical

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

• My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Writing, Nashville

• I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: globalgrind.com

• I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Character

• One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.

  Dolly Parton

  Real, Writing, Ideas

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

• I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Song, Writing

• I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.

  Dolly Parton

  Fashion, Song, Horse

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Memories, Writing

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

• I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Uncles, Writing

• Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Always Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Dolly Parton

  Dad, Writing, School

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

• 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

  Song, Writing, People

• I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Dashboards

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Block, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Children, Writing

• I write for myself things that I've gone through.

  Dolly Parton

  Writing, Gone

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2011.

• I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

  Dolly Parton

  Liars, Writing, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Book, Writing

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