Patti LaBelle Quotes
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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.
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So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
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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.
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You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
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I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
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I never thought I would be singing for the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
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I'll perform all the way to the grave.
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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.
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I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
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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.
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I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
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I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
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I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
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I'm very spontaneous.
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I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.
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When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
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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.
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Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
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I'm so grounded, it's sad.
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Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.