Patti Page Quotes

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.