Patsy Cline famous quotes

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.
-- Patsy Cline

#Song #Voice #Records

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

#Feelings

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

#Feet #Necks #Sticks

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.
-- Patsy Cline

#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!
-- Patsy Cline

#Song #Crazy #Fall

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

#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!
-- Patsy Cline

#Song #Home #Thinking

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.
-- Patsy Cline

#Singing #Cameras #Songwriting

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

#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!
-- Patsy Cline

#Boys #Car #Cash

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

#Real #Fabulous #Carnegie

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

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

#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.
-- Patsy Cline

#Mom #People #Half

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

#Opinion #Should #Offended

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

#Bullying #Angel #Finals

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.
-- Patsy Cline

#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!
-- Patsy Cline

#Heart #Voice #Childhood

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

#Want #Rich #Just Live

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

#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.
-- Patsy Cline

#Thinking #Mind #Stage

Im gonna be something one of these days.
-- Patsy Cline

#These Days

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

#Night #Missing #Night Time

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

#Mother #Crazy #Wife

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

#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'
-- Patsy Cline

#Couple #Fighting #Mind

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.
-- Patsy Cline

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

#Goodbye #Church #Records

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

#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.
-- Patsy Cline

#Broken Heart #Fall #Pieces

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
-- Patsy Cline

#Lying #Night #People

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
-- Patsy Cline

#Ambition

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

#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.
-- Patsy Cline

#Heart #Feelings #Casts