Patty Loveless Quotes

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

I started to perform when I was 12 ... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.

I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family.

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.