Patsy Cline quotes:

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

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

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'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

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

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.

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

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!

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

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

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

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

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.

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'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

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!

I'm gonna be something one of these days.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.

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'

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!

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

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

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

Im gonna be something one of these days.

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

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.

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

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.

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