89 Quotes by Pat Benatar

I wasn’t a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Of course, you’re not making records in a vacuum. I’m not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won’t.

It’s really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don’t have kids it’s a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She’s just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I’d be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

I wasn’t interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

I don’t care who’s on the label, because I have a job to do.

When the first record came out, I’d go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they’d tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren’t sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.