Patti Page Quotes

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

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

#3. 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.

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

#5. 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.

Patti Page

#6. People have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

#8. 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.

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

#10. Youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Patti Page

#11. If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

George Papandreou

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

Patti Page

#13. I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

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

Patti Page

#17. My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

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#18. 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.

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#19. We are guided by roses, the scent of a page.

Patti Smith

#20. I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

Dana Carvey

#21. Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

Patti Page

#22. The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...

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#23. Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.

Kristen Stewart

#24. When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Jack Gantos

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

Patti Page

#26. I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. (Explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick)

Laurie Anderson

#27. He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed
away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life.

Jeffry R. Halverson

#28. It follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

Patti Page

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

Patti Page