Top 58 Patti Labelle Quotes
#1. I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.
Monica
#2. Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
Lee Daniels
#3. I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us - like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight - we didn't give into this new wave of celebrity.
Stephanie Mills
#4. I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and failed at shooting a Patti Labelle or someone like that because Patti Labelle didn't turn them on, so you have to shoot what you care about.
Carol Friedman
#5. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#6. I never thought I would be singing for the world.
Patti LaBelle
#7. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#8. I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
Patti LaBelle
#10. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#11. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#12. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#13. I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
Patti LaBelle
#15. I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.
Patti LaBelle
#16. I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle
#17. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#18. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
Patti LaBelle
#19. I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
Patti LaBelle
#20. Tell Aretha I'll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.
Patti LaBelle
#23. Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.
Patti LaBelle
#25. I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
Patti LaBelle
#26. I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
Patti LaBelle
#27. I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
Patti LaBelle
#28. I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.
Patti LaBelle
#29. I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
Patti LaBelle
#30. Real divas give 150 percent. If they don't have the right dress, they'll go out in whatever they have. If there are no microphones, they'll still put on a show. They are people who put their heart and soul in what they do.
Patti LaBelle
#31. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#32. So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
Patti LaBelle
#33. All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.
Patti LaBelle
#34. In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.
Patti LaBelle
#36. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#37. Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
Patti LaBelle
#38. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#39. A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
Patti LaBelle
#40. It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."
Patti LaBelle
#42. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#43. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#45. Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.
Patti LaBelle
#47. I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.
Patti LaBelle
#48. I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
Patti LaBelle
#49. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#50. You've got to know business before you go to show business.
Patti LaBelle
#51. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#53. You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
Patti LaBelle
#54. When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
Patti LaBelle
#55. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#56. When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.
Patti LaBelle
#57. 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.
Patti LaBelle
#58. I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
Patti LaBelle
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