Quotes from Patsy Cline

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.

I'm gonna be something one of these days.

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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.

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.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

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