Quotes By Patti LaBelle

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

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.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

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.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I'm very spontaneous.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

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.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

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.

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.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

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.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

I'm no different than you.

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.