Reba McEntire

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

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

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.

I always thought that was so strange that people would try to corral you and pigeonhole you in one category and not play you anywhere else.

I think it’s a wonderful time for a woman.

Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also thoughtful.

[on animals] When I see a toreador in a bullfight getting gored I think: ‘Good, you shouldn’t be in there’. What is the pleasure in seeing an animal speared to death? It’s the same with fox hunting. They’re just psychopaths. I think I’ll end up doing something with animals – running a sanctuary or something.

If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’!

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

I’m really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I’m terrified of crossing streets. I’m also very accident-prone…I think people aim for me.

What cha saying boy, you think Im playing boy, watch ya mouth girl, its a mans world.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

I’ve signed breasts and bums. I’ve signed everything!

If you have physical attractiveness you don’t have to act.

When I started, I never gave any thought whatsoever to what I would be doing when I was 70.

When I was a question on Jeopardy!, that’s when I felt famous!

I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I want to know the answer.

Diamonds never leave you… men do!

No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.