The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
PATTI LUPONE The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
PATTI LUPONE A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make some...
PATTI LUPONE I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have th...
PATTI LUPONE I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you kn...
PATTI LUPONE Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the a...
PATTI LUPONE A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and ro...
PATTI LUPONE My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The...
PATTI LUPONE In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, b...
PATTI LUPONE Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to ...
PATTI LUPONE The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering th...
PATTI LUPONE I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can ...
PATTI LUPONE All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only prese...
PATTI LUPONE I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that ar...
PATTI LUPONE To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.
PATTI STANGER That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
PATTI DAVIS You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca...
PATTI SMITH The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I w...
PATTI STANGER In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did t...
PATTI SMITH I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
PATTI LABELLE The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice...
PATTI SMITH I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot...
PATTI STANGER I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They h...
PATTI LABELLE Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
PATTI JOHNSON I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
PATTI SMITH It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me fee...
PATTI STANGER As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
PATTI SMITH I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considerin...
PATTI DAVIS Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out agai...
PATTI DAVIS My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stag...
PATTI DAVIS I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
PATTI SMITH Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant p...
PATTI DAVIS It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
PATTI DAVIS The thing is that any sophistication I have, aesthetically, comes from 'Vogue' and 'Harp...
PATTI SMITH So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
PATTI LABELLE I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more ...
PATTI SMITH I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
PATTI SMITH No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the s...
PATTI SMITH Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good ...
PATTI SMITH The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
PATTI SMITH Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you ...
PATTI SMITH For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out ...
PATTI SMITH No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reser...
PATTI DAVIS Firstly, though we have to clean this blood up off the tiles before it dries. It is far easier to cl...
PATTI ROBERTS Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would n...
PATTI DAVIS Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his b...
PATTI DAVIS A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even ab...
PATTI SMITH So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no di...
PATTI LABELLE I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out...
PATTI STANGER We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really cop...
PATTI SMITH You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
PATTI SMITH I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Al...
PATTI DAVIS For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Ever...
PATTI STANGER Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We'...
PATTI LABELLE I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably cra...
PATTI SMITH The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa...
PATTI DAVIS I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to bl...
PATTI SMITH I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a ma...
PATTI STANGER If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gon...
PATTI STANGER The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst....
PATTI DAVIS Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheime...
PATTI DAVIS Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often somethin...
PATTI SMITH I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appeas...
PATTI SMITH I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that throug...
PATTI SMITH Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a ...
PATTI SMITH When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beau...
PATTI SCIALFA Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection,...
PATTI DAVIS It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we n...
PATTI DAVIS I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,'...
PATTI DAVIS I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I s...
PATTI SMITH It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
PATTI SMITH I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful...
PATTI STANGER There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, ...
PATTI SCIALFA As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
PATTI SMITH All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.
PATTI SCIALFA All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not g...
PATTI LABELLE I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and quee...
PATTI SMITH I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not cr...
PATTI SMITH After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.
PATTI DAVIS A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
PATTI LABELLE I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the bein...
PATTI LABELLE I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pret...
PATTI SMITH I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one ...
PATTI SMITH Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dati...
PATTI STANGER People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. ...
PATTI SCIALFA From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt v...
PATTI SMITH Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplin...
PATTI SMITH For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your ...
PATTI SMITH Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
PATTI SMITH Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their b...
PATTI STANGER I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through ...
PATTI SMITH I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I d...
PATTI SMITH I really do think snacking is the key to dieting. We know if you can steady your blood sugar, then y...
PATTI MILLIGAN Since I won't get to go into their homes, I really need to see from this journaling what the meal si...
PATTI MILLIGAN The goal is to get you off soda, off caffeine, and get the kids and all your families involved, too.
PATTI MILLIGAN The first is to love your liver. Your liver is the big powerhouse to process foods, as well as proce...
PATTI MILLIGAN In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
PATTI SMITH Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope ...
PATTI SMITH The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the f...
PATTI SMITH I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people reac...
PATTI SMITH Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket...
PATTI SMITH New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walke...
PATTI SMITH My mother answers all my fan mail.
PATTI SMITH Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
PATTI SMITH What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for...
PATTI STANGER I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I ...
PATTI STANGER It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take g...
PATTI SMITH My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
PATTI SMITH I like gettin' old.
PATTI SMITH Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print j...
PATTI DAVIS I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
PATTI SMITH I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.
PATTI PAGE People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
PATTI SMITH I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to...
PATTI SMITH I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I gr...
PATTI SCIALFA It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because ...
PATTI SMITH I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st...
PATTI SMITH Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mis...
PATTI DAVIS I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, t...
PATTI DAVIS My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers we...
PATTI SMITH I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date...
PATTI STANGER My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly...
PATTI SMITH My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a s...
PATTI SMITH What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just tr...
PATTI SMITH I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, ...
PATTI SMITH If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
PATTI SMITH I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs t...
PATTI SMITH It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. B...
PATTI DAVIS In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Ar...
PATTI SMITH In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great v...
PATTI SMITH The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high ...
PATTI SMITH I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I...
PATTI SMITH I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di...
PATTI DAVIS Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
PATTI SMITH I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was ...
PATTI SMITH We found consistently less than one microgram of accessible lead in these vinyl lunch boxes. That is...
PATTI DAVIS [Acknowledging that the death of a former president of Reagan's stature would be] a big unwieldy one...
PATTI DAVIS As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have t...
PATTI STANGER My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she&...
PATTI SMITH We recently did two benefits for a person with a brain tumor and at the first one, he was there. We ...
PATTI BROOKS The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he c...
PATTI SMITH I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. ...
PATTI SMITH Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Br...
PATTI SMITH Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's wha...
PATTI SMITH Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
PATTI SMITH I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at me...
PATTI SMITH I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be ...
PATTI SMITH Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
PATTI SMITH We catered for 3,000 people. Three thousand!
ANGELO PATTI The business just wasn't big enough for the three of us.
ANGELO PATTI We made about $12 that day, which was pretty good back then. Harold Curry reached into the cash regi...
ANGELO PATTI I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most s...
PATTI SMITH I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have...
PATTI SMITH I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, los...
PATTI SMITH I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. ...
PATTI SMITH I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merge...
PATTI SMITH I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis a...
PATTI STANGER I admire the kids being able to take this kind of pressure. They work for four years and everything ...
PATTI HOCH It's nothing short of miraculous.
PATTI HOCH I'm ecstatic over the two relays, especially the 200 free because that is our shot at state. It's se...
PATTI HOCH I can't expect 13 girls with nine freshmen to be able to go out there and hold their own. I also don...
PATTI HOCH For our relays, I was looking at the times they are swimming and comparing them to last year, and I ...
PATTI HOCH For all my seniors, we've been mainly focusing on how we are going into the sectional. Everybody has...
PATTI HOCH Oh, he's just trying to get an easier practice.
PATTI HOCH We have good swimmers, but we go in down nine, eight or seven points before the meet even starts. Th...
PATTI HOCH I appreciate what those guys are doing out there. I don't know anything about diving because my back...
PATTI HOCH Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we gro...
PATTI STANGER The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair c...
PATTI STANGER Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's n...
PATTI SMITH What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who h...
PATTI SMITH To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission thr...
PATTI DAVIS Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and...
PATTI SMITH I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't m...
PATTI SMITH Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opport...
PATTI ROBERTS What has happened is, not only has CEIFA not really worked as far as the formula goes, but it hasn't...
PATTI PAWLING Glitter In Their Eyes,
PATTI SMITH I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence.
PATTI SMITH Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
PATTI SMITH It would go back and forth between the two of us and then it would go over here and bang its head on...
PATTI SMITH Ask Me Anything.
PATTI SMITH He's so humble, and he is always willing to do whatever you ask him to do.
PATTI SMITH I don't expect a big crowd. But hopefully if this first meeting is interesting the word will spread.
PATTI SMITH I have another son that's in Iraq right now. So, it's not all the way over for us. But, if we can ta...
PATTI SMITH There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward...
PATTI DAVIS We used to have to use the senior citizens hall for Christmas concerts.
PATTI BYERS I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orlea...
PATTI LABELLE I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel wi...
PATTI MILLIGAN The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the...
PATTI SMITH My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li...
PATTI SMITH Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
PATTI SMITH We found consistently less than one microgram of accessible lead in these vinyl lunch boxes. That is...
PATTI DAVIS Everybody goes through the same thing; it doesn't matter what color you are. And Joss Stone just hap...
PATTI LABELLE The only check is the goodwill of the agencies.
PATTI GOLDMAN Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
PATTI SMITH I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this ...
PATTI SCIALFA For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I t...
PATTI SCIALFA I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't ...
PATTI SMITH