Patti LaBelle Quotes

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.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

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.

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.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

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 have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

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 love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

All these little heifers who can't sing are called ‘divas’.

There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

I'm no different than you.

I'm very spontaneous.

Many a false step is made standing still.

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

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.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.