"A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft." - Patti Labelle
"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
"Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself." - Patti Labelle
"Because I am a black woman who sings as well as the three names I mentioned, I have to wait longer and I have to do flips when I am on stage in order for them to see me." - Patti Labelle
"Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti." - Patti Labelle
"But when you get those divorce papers, you find out that you're still the same woman. Just a little free-er." - Patti Labelle
"Had I been a white performer, I would be a super-super-super star like Madonna, Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand." - Patti Labelle
"I ain't tryin' to go with no gorilla." - Patti Labelle
"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
"I am blessed with this voice and people come to hear me and part of what they are going to hear is what needs to be said about this." - Patti Labelle
"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
"I did a song with Carlos Santana, but of course he didn't sing - but I did sing with one of his band members, named Andy Vargas." - Patti Labelle
"I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody." - Patti Labelle
"I get angry with people who are prejudiced!" - Patti Labelle
"I guess I started by joining a choir." - Patti Labelle
"I have five kids: four kids and an adopted son." - Patti Labelle
"I have not paid attention to trying to keep up with the younger girl who's singing and doing their thing." - Patti Labelle
"I have Patti's pots and pans coming out soon. And Patti's jewelry on Home Shopping Network and my clothing line." - Patti Labelle
"I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all." - Patti Labelle
"I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out." - Patti Labelle
"I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer." - Patti Labelle
"I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada." - Patti Labelle
"I love the sound of a full orchestra, or if it's a band, I want to see everybody playing something up there." - Patti Labelle
"I never thought I would be singing for the world." - Patti Labelle
"I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes." - Patti Labelle
"I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better." - Patti Labelle
"I thought that I would just be a homebody, married with children with a picket fence." - Patti Labelle
"I truly respect the people who are working." - Patti Labelle
"I was a class quiet girl." - Patti Labelle
"I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone." - Patti Labelle
"I was very shy. I'm still shy." - Patti Labelle
"I'll perform all the way to the grave." - Patti Labelle
"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
"I'm no different than you." - Patti Labelle
"I'm not trying to impress the younger or the older generation." - Patti Labelle
"I'm very shy in a crowd." - Patti Labelle
"I'm very spontaneous." - Patti Labelle
"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
"If I can give some of the information to the young girls coming up, then I will do that and I have done that." - Patti Labelle
"If it ends up sounding like a younger person's rhythm, it just so happened that I loved whatever that was." - Patti Labelle
"If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it." - Patti Labelle
"If you are going to do this business, really do the business." - Patti Labelle
"It's true, I am a quiet woman, very quiet." - Patti Labelle
"Living with a disease means you have to think about health choices every day, like it or not." - Patti Labelle
"My ideal celebration would be sitting in the middle of the floor with a T-shirt on and a bushel of Baltimore crabs, extra jumbo male, gettin' my crab on." - Patti Labelle
"My motivation is I have the chance to show a few young girls and young men how easy or hard it can be." - Patti Labelle
"Now that I am divorced, I just run away after I feed them because I know that I have probably already hooked them." - Patti Labelle
"People with no humor, they're outta my life." - Patti Labelle
"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
"So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva." - Patti Labelle
"So when I don't record a song that I should have, I put it in my show." - Patti Labelle
"That's not easy because out of 40 songs, you gotta pick 12 or 13." - Patti Labelle
"The choir director told me that I had to go up front because I was not supposed to be singing the chorus because I am special." - Patti Labelle
"There are so many songs I have grown to love listening to over the years." - Patti Labelle
"There have been so many men in my life that I have fed and at the time I was married, and if I wasn't married, I know they would have tried to kiss me." - Patti Labelle
"This time I did something that wasn't stupid - I recorded the songs, and after I lived with them for awhile, I left them behind if I didn't love them." - Patti Labelle
"We all wanted to sing different music, so we all went in different directions. We are all still friends and we still plan on doing a reunion tour." - Patti Labelle
"We as a people can't give enough to people living with AIDS." - Patti Labelle
"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
"With me, I don't take very long in the studio." - Patti Labelle
"Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners." - Patti Labelle
"You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give." - Patti Labelle
"You know I'm a clothes girl, so I thought it made sense to have a Patti LaBelle Collection." - Patti Labelle
"You know, some people are so pitiful and they can't sing at all, so the producer has to take it one word at a time or one line at a time." - Patti Labelle
"You've got to know business before you go to show business." - Patti Labelle
