Pat Benatar famous quotes

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.
-- Pat Benatar

#Perfect #Laughing #Tree

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
-- Pat Benatar

#Daughter #Mother #Thinking

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
-- Pat Benatar

#Sacrifice #Grace #Conviction

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
-- Pat Benatar

#Heart #Soul #Circus

We'll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19.
-- Pat Benatar

#Play

You're the Picasso of pain.
-- Pat Benatar

#Pain

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.
-- Pat Benatar

#Dream #Heartbreaker #Makers

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
-- Pat Benatar

#Firsts #Personal Life

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.
-- Pat Benatar

#Inspirational #Enemy #Faces

Love is more than a one way reflection, stop using sex as a weapon.
-- Pat Benatar

#Love #Sex #Reflection

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.
-- Pat Benatar

#Education #Mistake #Cutting

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
-- Pat Benatar

#Girl #Play #Records

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
-- Pat Benatar

#Blessing #Want #Curse

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
-- Pat Benatar

#Buying #Records #Things Change

Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
-- Pat Benatar

#Children #Fun #Heart

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
-- Pat Benatar

#Hurt #Singers #Ass

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
-- Pat Benatar

#People #Singing #Commodity

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
-- Pat Benatar

#Life Changing #Writing #Thinking

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.
-- Pat Benatar

#Want #Done #Trash

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.
-- Pat Benatar

#Singers #Wonderful #Pops

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
-- Pat Benatar

#America #Pulse #Visionaries

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child...
-- Pat Benatar

#Pain #Children #Eye

Love is a battlefield.
-- Pat Benatar

#Song #Love Is

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
-- Pat Benatar

#Evil #Notches #Cases

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
-- Pat Benatar

#Love You #Flesh #Pay

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
-- Pat Benatar

#Beautiful #Taken #Careers

I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.
-- Pat Benatar

#Envelopes #Gaga

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
-- Pat Benatar

#Baby #Trying #Figures

Everything must change, everything must move forward.
-- Pat Benatar

#Moving #Moving Forward

In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual.
-- Pat Benatar

#Powerful #Heart #Ideas

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
-- Pat Benatar

#Thinking #Pushing #Envelopes

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
-- Pat Benatar

#Jobs #Care #Labels