#her

My grandpa was a preacher. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#preacher

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#enough #i #me #now #old

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#children #desire #either #had #having

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#five #had #husband #i #lived

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#especially #influence #me #mother #parents

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#guitar #i #influential #more #play

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#better #down #exchange #get #good

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#faces #hand #i #kinks #like

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#adulation #anything #art #get #i

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#arrived #because #better #between #fine