A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out onstage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're laying in that bed at night being totally ignored.
Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.
As I walked from the dressing room to the stage up this flight of stairs, all I could think about was all the famous, fantastic people who had walked up those stairs.
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!
Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
He's just not man enough to take it, I mean the having me where I am now. But I'm gonna put away as much of this money as I can.
Here I am just coming off a big record and I go and get pregnant. This is really gonna tie me down.
Here's the first record that came out, and here we are listening to the last one.
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 think I'll ever be able to ride in a car again.
I got a rush as I walked onstage and heard this mob cheering. I could feel the good vibes as I moved up to the microphone.
I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.
I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.
I guess I thought I loved him or something, but he's so dull. It's like he's disinterested.
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 just love this house. I wanted so damn long. Now I have something that's made the waiting worth it. This is my blood, sweat, and tears!
I met a fellow last week and I been going out with him. I never thought it was going to happen.
I never lost consciousness from the time it happened, through the sewing up of my head and until they gave me gas to set my hip. They thought I was gone twice and had to give me three pints of blood.
I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
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 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 used to sing or hum along with just about every song I'd hear on the Opry shows.
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 would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.
I'm getting things in shape for the Dick Clar show, but don't know the date yet.
I'm gonna be something one of these days.
I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.
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'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
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've become a captive of my own ambitions.
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 these two kids weren't here I would never have come home, I'll tell you that for sure.
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!
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
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.
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.
My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!
My record sold 10,000 in Detroit last week alone and is hitting all the pop charts. Swingin', huh?
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.
Promise me you'll take care of my babies if something happens to me.
Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
These are the songs we're gonna do, and that's it.
They had Jimmy Dean sitting in the audience, and Jack Benny. I guess he had come to see Tommy Jackson play the fiddle!
They've gone through every song I ever sang and recorded and they picked Walkin' After Midnight. You guys are a bunch of jackasses.
This ain't like New York, but it's uptown.
This is the time to be with your family, not away from them.
Wally Fowler's at the Palace and I'm going down to the theater and see if I can get on the show.
We were awfully proud of having the opportunity to go that 'fur up in high cotton. I'd have to say that's the cream of the crop.
Well, I'm nearly up on the moon and didn't need a rocket.
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.
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.
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.
She became a member of the Grand Ole Opry on January 9, 1960
Daughter, Julia Simadore Dick, b. August 25, 1958 Son, Allen Randolph "Randy" Dick, b. January 1961
Nearly killed June 14, 1961 when she and 21-year-old brother Sam Hensley were involved in a head-on car crash in Madison, Tennessee. Patsy was thrown through the car's windshield. Recovery from the accident took a month and Patsy's forehead was permanently scarred.
Patsy's winning appearance on "Talent Scouts" (1948) in 1957 froze the applause meter used to judge contestants.
Pictured on one of four 29? US commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, featuring Country & Western music. This set of stamps also honored Hank Williams, Bob Wills, and The Carter Family. Issued 25 September 1993 in sheet and booklet formats.
Recorded 102 songs during her six-year career.
Wore many wigs after her car crash which left many scars on her forehead
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Many plays have been written based on her life. Most famous are "Always, Patsy Cline" and "Just A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline".
Ranked #11 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Recorded many of her most famous hits from the 1950s with legendary session guitar player Hank Garland. Garland also played with her during her famous appearance on "Talent Scouts" (1948) in 1957. They were both considered part of the famous Nashville musicians known as the A-team.
Ranked #1 of the 40 greatest women in country music.
Recorded with Hank Garland in the late 1950s to early 1960s in sessions that produced the songs "I'm Moving Along", "I'm Blue Again", "Love, Love, Love Me Honey Do", "That Wonderful Someone", "(Write Me) In Care of the Blues", "Hungry For Love, I Can't Forget You", "I Don't Wanta", "Ain't No Wheels On This Ship", "Yes, I Understand", "Gotta Lot of Rhythm In My Soul", "Life's Railway To Heaven", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", "Lovesick Blues", "How Can I Face Tomorrow", "There He Goes", and "Crazy Dreams".
Portrayed by Jessica Lange in Sweet Dreams (1985) and by Mandy Barnett in Crazy (2006)
Recorded Willie Nelson's "Crazy". According to Nelson, it was one of the few songs Patsy did not get on the first take. After a break he realized the problem was that she was attempting to sing it the way he had originally recorded it. After he told her to "make it her own" she got it the first time. According to Nelson in an interview with Terry Gross, it is on more juke boxes and remains the #1 song on juke boxes EVER!
Was a close personal friend of Loretta Lynn and was portrayed by Beverly D'Angelo in the story of Lynn's life, Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). D'Angelo did all her own singing for the role.
Patsy's manager and pilot, Randy Hughes, was taught to fly by the same flight instructor who taught another popular country singing star, Jim Reeves, to fly. Jim met the same fate as Patsy, Randy, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas in July 1964, when his plane crashed in eerily similar circumstances during a severe thunderstorm.
Is portrayed by Tere Myers in Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (1995) (TV)
Performed at a Country Music show at Carnegie Hall in 1961 (a novel concept at the time). Among the other stars that appeared with Patsy were Chet Atkins, Minnie Pearl, and Jim Reeves.
Actor J.D. Walters was asked to attendee dinner in honor of Patsy Cline in Winchester, Virginia, 1996.
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