Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

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You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

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Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

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I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

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I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

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You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

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