Barry McGuire
American musician
Tanya Tucker is an acclaimed American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit at age 13. She has had a successful career, winning a Grammy Award and being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her latest album is a collaboration with Brandi Carlile.
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Tanya Denise Tuckeris an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, “Delta Dawn”, in 1972 at the age of 13. During her career Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience; she had a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits.
She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs including 1973’s “What’s Your Mama’s Name?” and “Blood Red and Goin’ Down”, 1975’s “Lizzie and the Rainman”, 1988’s “Strong Enough to Bend”, and 1992’s “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane”. Tucker’s 2019 album While I’m Livin’ won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and “Bring My Flowers Now” from that same album won Tucker a shared songwriting Grammy for Best Country Song.
Tucker’s latest album is a 2023 critically acclaimed collaboration with Brandi Carlile called Sweet Western Sound. Tucker was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on October 22, 2023.
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
American singer and songwriter
But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
American singer and songwriter
I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
That’s the era we grew up in. It’s weak to go to a psychiatrist.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
American singer and songwriter
Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
American singer and songwriter
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 couldn’t defend myself.
American singer and songwriter
Well, I don’t throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
If the Cowboys and Titans ain’t playing, I’m not interested.
American singer and songwriter
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.
American singer and songwriter
It’s a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
American singer and songwriter
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
American singer and songwriter
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don’t know why I’d retire.
American singer and songwriter
Everybody has problems.
American singer and songwriter
Words are not even within me. They’re not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
American singer and songwriter
There’s no way to be able to tell what it’s like to be a country singer until you’re walking in the shoes.
American singer and songwriter
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
American singer and songwriter
I’d like to do a Christmas album. I’ve never done a Christmas album.
American singer and songwriter
I don’t think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
American singer and songwriter