Words matter. These are the best Patti LaBelle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m very shy in a crowd.
I love Canadians because I don’t see very much racism in Canada.
You don’t have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn’t sell myself out.
I don’t tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home – that’s the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white – it’s amazing that I’m able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
I’m still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody crush your dream.
People with no humor, they’re outta my life.
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn’t know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.
I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.
I can’t do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs – one for each year. I don’t want no diamonds, I don’t want no shoes, I don’t want no party. I want some crabs.
I’m so grounded, it’s sad.
I’ve had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I’ve had, I’m happy that I’ve had them because it’s taught me to appreciate all the ups.
I’ll perform all the way to the grave.
I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
I don’t feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.
I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
When I was married, I wasn’t loving myself. Now I’m in love with myself. I will get married again.
You’ve got to know business before you go to show business.
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
