Dolly Parton recalls criticism over 'cheap' style: 'People wanted me to change'
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Dolly Parton is opening up about the advice she didn't follow early on in her music career.
In a new interview, the singer and songwriter revealed that many people tried to get her to change her look – but she didn't budge.
"The main advice that people wanted to give me was to change my look and to go simpler with my hair and the way that I dress. Not to look so cheap, nobody was ever going to take me seriously, they would say," Parton, 76, said on the "Work Life" with Adam Grant podcast.
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