Patti LaBelle Quotes

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

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Prove

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Place, Girl

• 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.

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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Heart

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

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Myself, Feel

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anybody, Want

• I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Percent

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decade

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

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Canada

• I never thought I would be singing for the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Thought

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

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Shy

• I was very shy. I’m still shy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shy

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Queen

• I’ll perform all the way to the grave.

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Way

• I’m very spontaneous.

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spontaneous

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Taught

• I’m very shy in a crowd.

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crowd

• People with no humor, they’re outta my life.

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Humor, Life

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Black And White

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

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving

Patti LaBelle (26)

Birth:	24th May, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Lyricist, Singer

About

Patti LaBelle is an American singer, author, and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry. LaBelle spent 16 years as lead singer of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, who changed their name to Labelle in the early 1970s and released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade". Labelle are also noted for being the first African American group to play at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera House and the first African American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

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