Patti Page

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.