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Patti LaBelle

lines on the record: 48
first: 2023-04-26
most recent: 2023-04-26
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I know you So much, and when people say, How's Oprah? I submit her one day yourself. I know how she is with me to me for me.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know you're a very good friend to me. I know that for years you've done so many wonderful things for me because you like me.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, maybe a window. Not always another door. Window, something, but you have to hold on to your belief in life that it's not going to be dark like this with that door closed for the rest of my life. If another door doesn't open, let's let that window crack. And you can see the light. That's how it's been for me. I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from being the true. Me that's here and will be here I could never be happy about my life. All the things that I've been in and out of and through. So strong now, Oprah. I don't need to worry anymore about anything.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They were dancing around that stage. I said, Heffers, if you dance so much, too. I'm going to kid you. The things that I love about me are all the funny, crazy things that happens, and I'm not afraid to tell people.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I told all the dancers, help us if you're dancing, if you see a tooth. I swear to God, this happened. I said, It's my tooth. Nobody could find my teeth. I said to Fayla, I said, baby boy, if you see my tooth, it's just one. And I had to sing and go.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't do that. The only thing that happens spontaneous when I was doing Broadway failure, my tooth broke. And so we couldn't find it.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not even a fly girl, but yeah, you hit a zone Never ever will I do any song the same way twice Never Over the rainbow has been done a billion times can I tell you I change it every time I sing it When I did Broadway that was the first time I was disciplined When I did Fayla, Armist shirt the box with God and you got to do it every night. Do it the same way every night. Everybody's waiting to follow your lead and you better be right, Miss Patty. No freestyle and them remixing up in this youth.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got a pet. Hey, my back there. And so we did all of those wonderful things, and we're still known as the first group to do certain things.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Labelle. We were ahead of our time. Yeah. We did things, we sang songs, political songs, sexual songs. Black girls are no girls. We're singing the stuff that Nona wrote. Nona Hendrix is one of the best writers ever. Sarah Dash had one of the best and still does voice Nona Hendrix, Cindy Birdsong, and Patty. We were singers, innovators. Is that what you call it? Yes.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What? Girl, I accepted it. I'm putting light around it, bright light around it, because to be a living legend. You can't beat that”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Gosh, I guess flowers and walking my little shit too and walking in my pool I can't swim, but I walk for the it makes me happy now and there was a time in my life.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it made it stronger. Yeah, because I knew that because they're gone, I have to have heavy faith. Heavy belief, and knowing that I'm still here and I can't depress myself about that any more than I did when it happened to them. I can't stress myself anymore. The only thing that I could do is make my life better.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We just Last night. About something crazy. Zouri is my love, a love of my life, and the best manager I've ever had, and we have this new company with my Lady Marmalade Business and Sauces.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, that's awful. If only you knew. He's the best manager, businessman that I've ever met. But when you're managing your mother, I'm like his mother, his daughter, everything is Yes, but first of all, I'm his mother. And then I'm his.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Five children, and Zori said it was okay. I said, Zory, do you mind if I bring other kids in the house? No, mom, he didn't mind sharing me with others.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was petrified I thought that I was gonna leave the planet before my tim And as I said, I'm here. I'm 69 and I'm still working. I'm still living. I'm still happy. I take care of my niece and my nephew, Jackie's two kids. Billy lives with me”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh heck yes. Yeah, girl, like, how many years? I don't know, but I pretended a lot. And you know I'm an actress too. I've seen you, yeah. I was acting many years, and Armstrong is a straightforward man, and I'm a wild chub, and I didn't want to be married anymore. And nor did he. So as mutual.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Never smoked, never learned how to smoke, never learn how to swim, never learned how to drive, never did drugs, never learned, never want to. But I now make sure he's okay? And he comes around And make sure I'm okay when I have to have him take me someplace or something. So we're best of friends now.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I stayed some years because of But Armstrong had never done anything awful to me, right? I just couldn't get along with anybody for 32 straight years. It was just that I was a witch sometimes. Not easy to get along with. Imagine this. He lives 10 minutes away from me. When he's sick, I make sure he gets the right medicine. I don't drive, I can't drive, so I have Zori.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were married for 32 years We have one beautiful son, Zori, who's 40. I don't know if I should have said his age, but I did. And we live 10 minutes from each other now that we're divorced.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For you or my buddy, buddy, and you didn't want to see me divorced. And you were saying, well, I'm going to. I said, No, no, no. He's fine. And you said, okay. And then you”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was Mariah Mary Jenda. And I looked up and said, oh, you look beautiful. And she said, oh, you do too. And we're buddies now. Wow. The thing is, it all ended well. But yeah, there was a big mess about people thinking that she didn't like me and I didn't like her. I love her Can I have Sw Okay, keep going.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As in all these years people are starting to surround us. But I never wanted a riff with her because I love her talent. She's one of the best out there, and so when we exchange phone numbers and started talking to each other after the legends of all.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it was always an in and out thing. I would hear things that Diana might have said about me, and she probably didn't. You know how people keep stuff going? And I said, I'm not going to let that be until one day something really laid on my heart. And I said, maybe she doesn't really like me. And I just, we went years without seeing each other, talking on the phone or anything because the reason for that was when I went to your house. And Dinah was there”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Things for years it would be the Supremes are fabulous and they're the best and we were Patty Labelle and the Bluebells and we were performing here And we wore these golem made beautiful suits. The Supremes came on right after us. We had two songs. They had about three or four with the same goal of May. They went to Woolworths or wherever we went and bought those suckers and bought the same freaking outfit.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or, what is that? No, let me tell you the truth. And when we finally got back together, was at the Legends Ball. Oh. At your house.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's, I, like I know when somebody is going to be with me. You know, sometimes I hold back singing with someone else because I never want to try to. Up Anyone, that's not my position in life.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a turn on. I mean, I'm seeing someone's expression. Sometimes they're like this And then they stand up. I said, Oh, I got you because you were a doubter when you came in. So, whenever I can make someone like that, it's a turn on. I said, I got you standing now, boo. And it's such a, it's my pleasure to see people. React to anything I sing. Even when I sing softly They don't expect that So that's another”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No kind of book. No nothing. I have a landline phone at my home. You have that number? That's the only phone I have. That's the only phone I want.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not speaking on your instrument. And I don't even have a cell phone. You know I'm not going to talk to somebody else.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I make sure people notice me when I go out. When they stop noticing you, it's over. And I have a lot of people to come up to me, can we take this photo? Can you talk to my mother on the phone? I said, I don't do the phone because I don't want no germs, baby. But tell her, I said, hey, hello, mother.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is. It keeps me going. Music is my life. That's what I do. Not for a living, but for a life. It's for my life. I don't sing to make money. I sing because I really love it. I'll sing on the street right down 125th Street for free anytime.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we'll say to Iran is saying, and they'll, I love you, I need you, honey, but I know that one, but there are many times when I forget the lyrics. And I'm not ashamed to say to yourself, I forgot that song. And I keep going, you know, it's fun. I'm human”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have to sing. I was singing on the way here in the car. Songs come on. Like I said, I remix all the time because I don't know lyrics to songs.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He will do whatever. Don't get me gospel work. You want him to do, I don't know words, I remix all the time. But God specializes, and we had the audience saying, Hallelujah. Not hallelujah, hallelujah. And we loved, I love the feedback.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Where I was afraid to be anything. It was like about 20 choir members. I wanted to be hidden in the middle. Or on the end, I didn't care, never to sing lead, and she heard my voice. She said, Patty, no Patsy. You're going to come out and you're going to sing. I said, no, I'm not. She said, yes, you are. So she had a son who could sing really well. She'll say, let's do this duet with my son, who sounds like Luther. So we did this do it. God specializes. And I”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there's too many for the plane. I'll give him to the homeless shelters. But I've seen you with the six bunches on the plane.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we didn't know. And so I said, I'm not taking it back. What you're saying is what you're going to get. And every show since then over. If we don't sing that song, The people will get angry”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Never knowing what Bully Vukusheva wants, as well meant. We knew it had a hook and that it would sell a lot of record. Honey, when they told us about two months ago, your record is like a hit. Two months later, yeah. Yeah, and it's all about hookers”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm doing it so well now, Oprah. It's like I'm not afraid. I was afraid to tell Zuri with what the doctor said to me. And he said, Mom, I know you're going to tell me the truth. It hurts if you say to your son that I'm almost not going to make it for some stupid reason that I can control. Oh, I'm so good and so much better.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's serious about it. A doctor talked to me seriously, talked to me like a real girl. Labelle means nothing. If I'm not here. And he said, You are one lady, thank God. He said, who can stay here for a long, long time if you do the right thing? So, you think I'm not living my life like it's platinum right now?”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Finish the eight cheese macaroni with lobster and shrimp finish. I am eating no fruit. I'm eating no sugar. And I've lost about eight pounds in the last two weeks”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My last sister, Jackie, died of cancer, who I adopted her two kids, Billy and Stacey. And I went on to perform, and the night of her funeral, I did the video, if you ask me to. And when you see the tears in my eyes, they're from, I just buried my sister that day. So, what you see in that video are tears of Jackie And so I always thought I would die of cancer early. I'm so blessed I have type 2 diabetes for sixteen years. And I'm doing well now about my diabetes. I'm doing so much better because before I said, okay, I still fried chicken. Eat it. I now fry for friends, and I watch them enjoy it. No more potatoes. Oh, you know the potato salad we did on the show? I know people say that girl, the 12 egg potato salad and all that jazz with real mayo.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You got that right. Like I said, I've been here for 50 years in this business. And 69 years young, and there's no stopping me.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You were on the floor. It was a part of the show, like the last song, next to the last song, I would kick them off and roll on the floor. Row the mic over and continue to do it. I don't know what made me do it, but when I did, I felt the zeal was getting exercised when I was rolling on the floor and having fun. Singing Lover Man.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I was 17 then. Every shoe I had, I wanted to stay on my feet because somebody might take them. So no girl, I never took the pumps off back then. Back.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've been blessed You know, with a decent voice. And so when we first played the Apollo Theater, Honeycomb, who worked here at the time, came back to our dresser room and said, you girls, we're so great, would you honor us with a second song? And nobody was ever asked to do more than one except like the Supremes they were doing two and three temptations, but not, who are we? Patty Labelle and the Blue Bells. We said, of course, so our first song was All or Nothing, and then we added, you'll never walk alone. Sarah had that beautiful high voice. Nona had that in between, and Cindy had another in between, and I was all over the place. You know me.”
2023-04-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Patti LaBelle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, the Apollo Theater, I'm 69 years young. I've been in show business for fifty years. Yeah, five 0 years in business call show. I did so many shows here at the Apollo Theater. I can't remember how many. And I think that I was 17 when I started performing at the Apollo. And all of the great memories, all of the great bands, thank God they were because if not, they would boo you off and all that crazy stuff.”
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