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Life of the music legend whose songs touched millions
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Parton said she was driving when she first heard the cover and had to pull over: “When I heard her go from the a cappella into the music part, I honestly thought I was going to have a heart attack, it was one of the most overwhelming things.
Having written thousands of songs across her decades-long career, Parton said songwriting was her greatest form of self-expression. Writing in her book Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, Parton said Wagoner saw her success away from his show as a "threat".
Houston's cover of Parton's “sad little country song” was one of the proudest moments of her life, she said. "It's a song that's just stood by me... it's created a life of many colours for me," she said.
Parton said she felt better in bright colours and shiny clothes on stage: "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap" After graduating from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville to launch her singing career and met her future husband, Carl Dean, on her very first day.
When people said to her: “She ain’t nothing but trash”, Parton would reply: "Well, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up”. She has described the Opry as the "church of my heart" and said performing there was a lifelong dream.
"It's my way of expressing myself," she said.
What's confirmed
- Parton said she was driving when she first heard the cover and had to pull over: “When I heard her go from the a cappella into the music part, I honestly thought I was going to have a heart attack, it was one of the most
- Having written thousands of songs across her decades-long career, Parton said songwriting was her greatest form of self-expression.
- Houston's cover of Parton's “sad little country song” was one of the proudest moments of her life, she said.
- Parton said she felt better in bright colours and shiny clothes on stage: "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap" After graduating from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville to launch her singing
- “She ain’t nothing but trash”, Parton would reply: "Well, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up”.
- "It's my way of expressing myself," she said.
What's still developing
- "It's my way of expressing myself," she said.
- When people said to her: “She ain’t nothing but trash”, Parton would reply: "Well, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up”.
- Parton said she felt better in bright colours and shiny clothes on stage: "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap" After graduating from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville to launch her…
- Writing in her book Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, Parton said Wagoner saw her success away from his show as a "threat".
- "It's a song that's just stood by me... it's created a life of many colours for me," she said.
- Parton said she was driving when she first heard the cover and had to pull over: “When I heard her go from the a cappella into the music part, I honestly thought I was going to have a heart attack, it was one of the…
- Houston's cover of Parton's “sad little country song” was one of the proudest moments of her life, she said.
- She has described the Opry as the "church of my heart" and said performing there was a lifelong dream.