Patsy Cline Quotes

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!

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

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.

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

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

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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!

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

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Im gonna be something one of these days.

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

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

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

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

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

On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.

It sure gives me faith and a wonderful feeling to know how many fans and friends are wanting me well again.

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

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

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

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.