Dolly Parton Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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 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

• 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 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

• The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

  Dolly Parton

  Writing, Guitar, Play

• I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Years

• When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Writing, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

  Dolly Parton

  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

• 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

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  "Dolly Parton: Gee, She's Really Nice". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. December 7, 1980.

• I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

  Dolly Parton

  Stars, Children, Book

  "Dolly Parton remains a down-home treasure". Interview with Jim Abbott, www.catholic.org. October 20, 2008.

• I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Learning

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

• I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Inspire

• Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

  Dolly Parton

  Writing, Cooking, Breakfast

• So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

  Dolly Parton

  School, Writing, Daddy

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, www.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

• 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

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