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Patsy Cline quotes

Ocupation: Singer

Life: September 8, 1932 - March 5, 1963

Birthday: September 8

Death: March 5

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I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

Topics: Song, Voice, Records

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If you can't do it with feeling, don't.

source: - Attributed to Patsy Cline in Ellis Nassour "Patsy Cline", 1981.

Topics: Feelings

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

Topics: Feet, Necks, Sticks

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

source: - Attributed to Patsy Cline by WSM radio employee Trudy Stamper; liner notes, The Patsy Cline Story, 1963.

Topics: Hurt, Hurting Inside

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Topics: Song, Crazy, Fall, Car Wreck, Emotional Wreck

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

Topics: Records, Made, Cents

You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

source: - "Patsy Cline". Book by Ellis Nassour, 1981.

Topics: Song, Home, Thinking, Matched

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Topics: Singing, Cameras, Songwriting, Heads Up

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

Topics: Years, Half, Arthur

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Topics: Boys, Car, Cash

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

Topics: Real, Fabulous, Carnegie, Carnegie Hall

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

Topics: Wall, Awards, House

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Topics: Mom, People, Half

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Topics: Opinion, Should, Offended, Offended You

The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

Topics: Bullying, Angel, Finals, Final Words

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

Topics: Dust, Mad, Want

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

Topics: Heart, Voice, Childhood, Infection

I don't want to get rich - just live good.

Topics: Want, Rich, Just Live

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

source: - From a 1955 bio sheet; reproduced in liner notes, "The Patsy Cline Collection" album, MCA Nashville Records, 1992.

Topics: Rich, Just Live, Get Rich

Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.

Topics: Thinking, Mind, Stage

Im gonna be something one of these days.

Topics: These Days

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

Topics: Night, Missing, Night Time

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

Topics: Mother, Crazy, Wife

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.

Topics: People, World, This World

I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

Topics: Couple, Fighting, Mind

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

Topics: Goodbye, Church, Records, Courtroom

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

Topics: Country, Wanted

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

source: - Song: I Fall to Pieces

Topics: Broken Heart, Fall, Pieces, You Want Me

A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

Topics: Lying, Night, People

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

Topics: Ambition

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

Topics: Mother, Support, Gone

Find one person in the audience and sing to them with all of your heart. And then cast a spell over them. Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling - don't.

source: - "The Real Patsy Cline". Documentary film, 1986.

Topics: Heart, Feelings, Casts

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

Topics: Jesus, Taken, Hands

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Topics: Thinking, Who I Am, Identity

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Topics: Rich, Just Live

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.

Topics: Pick Me

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

Topics: Wedding Band

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