Dinah Shore Quotes (18 Quotes)

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

They were looking for a singer for his national radio show, Time to Smile, and Eddie's daughter asked me to come in and audition.

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

My tastes are eclectic.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.