1. 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. 2. So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
4. People with no humor, they're outta my life.
5. You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
6. I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
7. 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.
9. I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.
10. I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
11. I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
13. I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
15. I never thought I would be singing for the world.
16. I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
17. 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.
19. I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
20. I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
22. I was very shy. I'm still shy.
23. I'm no different than you.
24. I'm so grounded, it's sad.
25. 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.
27. I'm very shy in a crowd.
28. I'm very spontaneous.
29. 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.
30. 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.
32. When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
33. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
35. You've got to know business before you go to show business.
37. Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.
38. I have Patti's pots and pans coming out soon. And Patti's jewelry on Home Shopping Network and my clothing line.
39. I was a class quiet girl.
41. Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.
42. I thought that I would just be a homebody, married with children with a picket fence.
43. I get angry with people who are prejudiced!
45. I ain't tryin' to go with no gorilla.
46. If it ends up sounding like a younger person's rhythm, it just so happened that I loved whatever that was.
47. Had I been a white performer, I would be a super-super-super star like Madonna, Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand.
49. 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.
50. 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.
52. 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.
53. Living with a disease means you have to think about health choices every day, like it or not.
55. I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.
56. We as a people can't give enough to people living with AIDS.
57. 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.
59. My motivation is I have the chance to show a few young girls and young men how easy or hard it can be.
60. 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.
61. That's not easy because out of 40 songs, you gotta pick 12 or 13.
62. 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.
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