Dinah Shore Quotes


"Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Men, Women)

"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."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Music, Value)

"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."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Father)

"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."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Life, Love, Chance, Trouble)

"My tastes are eclectic."
- Dinah Shore
"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."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Love, Country, Jazz)

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Fire, World)

"I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Women, Today)

"I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Time, Singing)

"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."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Death, Achievement)

"Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower."
- Dinah Shore
(Related: People)

"And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad."
- Dinah Shore
"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.'"
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Money, Father, Advice)