Quotes by Tanya Tucker

About Tanya Tucker:

Tanya Denise Tucker is an American female country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down," 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman," and 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend".
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The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

Tanya Tucker

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

Tanya Tucker

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Tanya Tucker

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Tanya Tucker

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I could...

Tanya Tucker

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

Tanya Tucker

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

Tanya Tucker

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Tanya Tucker

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Tanya Tucker

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

Tanya Tucker

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

Tanya Tucker

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

Tanya Tucker

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

Tanya Tucker

He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

Tanya Tucker

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Tanya Tucker

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

Tanya Tucker

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

Tanya Tucker

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

Tanya Tucker

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Tanya Tucker

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

Tanya Tucker

Author Bio

  • NameTanya Tucker
  • DescriptionAmerican country music artist
  • BornOctober 10, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Musician