Lorrie Morgan Quotes

At the Opry, Jeannie Seely is a wonderful friend of mine. She was very supportive of me, as were Jean Shepard and Jeanne Pruett.

That concerns me, that we’re reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.

I just want people to be able to love who they want to love and be themselves. I mean, who the hell am I to judge?

That’s where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.

People often portray me as Miss Hard Stuff. It hurts my feelings a lot.

I got the reputation of being hard to work with. It has been hard for me to get rid of it.

Sad songs are what move people.

We can’t be dictated to by radio. Radio needs to play what we send them.

I grew up with three older sisters and an older brother.

I just write a little bit on piano. I’m not by any stretch of the means even a good piano player. I just pick out little melodies on the piano and play.

I’ve always had to be a survivor, kind of a loner.

Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn’t where the big money was.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn’t even put a record out yet.

When it’s time to work we work; when it’s time to play, we play.

I’ve reached an age where I don’t want to be on the road all the time.

I didn’t want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.

There comes a time in everybody‘s musical career that you have to regroup and reinvent yourself.

I never thought my life‘s path would take me to Broadway, but when I heard they were creating a musical based on one of Country music’s best-loved films, I knew I had to be part of it.

You can’t statistic through your whole life.

I’m not willing to sacrifice what I’ve learned and what I’m about just to get played on radio.

Country music fans aren’t stupid. I’m not stupid.

My dad told me years ago, be sure you record what you love because the minute you record what you hate, that’ll be your hit single and you’ll have to sing it the rest of your life. So thank God I love ‘Something in Red.’

My worst vacation ever was when we went to Cancun with the kids! It was during hurricane season. We had to make alternate plans to head home early, cutting our Cancun vacation short. We ended up in Texas at a water park for a whole week! Not exactly what we had planned.

L. A. isn’t particularly my scene.

You definitely will not hear any hip hop at my show. Not that I don’t think there’s an art to that, but it’s not for me.

We want to know other people are in pain, because that’s what we relate to.

There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.

Secretaries don’t take their kids to work; why should I?

I am such an admirer of the Bedell Guitars instruments and its stewardship to respect Mother Nature and every individual tree used to create its products.

I heard ‘Angel‘ because my children are huge Sarah McLachlan fans. When I heard it for the first time I just cried my eyes out.

I know how everybody criticizes everybody else in this business.

During the ’80s, Nashville didn’t believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs.

I would like to start acting, making movies.

A lot of times you idolize somebody from a distance and you get to meet them and you think, ‘Eyuck. I wish I had never met you people.’

The Opry is about sharing.

I had a lot of higher-up people tell me, ‘You need to act such-and-such a way and go out to this club and that club and be seen with these certain people.’

Nobody – and I don’t care if I marry somebody tomorrow – nobody could take Keith Whitley’s place. Nobody.

Women need a lot of understanding, and they need songs to help them express themselves.

I love to perform. It’s all I know.

He was not only instrumental in giving me the confidence I needed as an artist, but through the years he has given many other up-and- coming stars the confidence and true grit they have acquired by loving and listening to the music of Keith Whitley.

I’ve never said, ‘If it ain’t country, it ain’t good.’

Another Lonely Song’ is one of the most meaningful songs I’ve ever done.

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

I would like to visit Bora Bora.

I felt like ‘What Part of No’ was very chauvinistic. I thought men would take it the wrong way and turn against me. I’m happy to say I was proven wrong.

I want to enjoy my husband and my home and my children.

I love Joe Galante. He gave me the shot in this business that no one else would give me. And I will always love Joe Galante. Always. Regardless of what comes tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now. He, along with God, allowed me to make a lot of my dreams come true. And I’ll always love Joe Galante for that.

Country music is therapy – it’s therapy for the rural world.

You never get over losing somebody who was – hell – the love of your life.

I think when artists close their ears to any music, when they won’t do anything besides country music or rock music, they get stale.