Barbara Mandrell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.”

“I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.”

“It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.”

“Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.”

“I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.”

“I think it was 37 years that I did music.”

“When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.”

“I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.”

“I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.”

“I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.”