Reba McEntire Quotes

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Reba McEntire

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 28, 1955

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.

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You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

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I just love motherhood.

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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

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Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

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I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

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Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.

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I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

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And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

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Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

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You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

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I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

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Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.

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When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

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