Kate Smith Quotes

"Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Women, Society, Defeat, Opinion, Prejudice, Public)

"Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Singing, Song, Years)

"There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Chance, First)

"This nation loves singing and loves acting."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Acting, Nation, Singing)

"Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Family, People, Act, Friends, Pleasure)

"Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Time, Nothing)

"I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised."
- Kate Smith

"I have never known stage-fright at any time."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Time)

"I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Career)

"I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Money, Motives)

"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Dying, Years)

"I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Actors)

"I am harder on myself than anyone else could be."
- Kate Smith

"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Voice)

"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training."
- Kate Smith
(Related: People, Example, Training)

"During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches."
- Kate Smith
(Related: God, America, Committee)

"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Music, Nothing, Wrong)

"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Singing)

"In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Songs, Years)

"I learn my songs by ear."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Songs)

"Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Money, War, Women, Voice, Words)

"As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Car, Country)

"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Performance, Controversy, Public)

"It's up to the audience. It always has been."
- Kate Smith

"It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Meaning, Song, Word)

"It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Health, Obvious, Weight)

"Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Intention, Sincerity)

"In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Music, Ballads, Meaning, Words)

"Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Home, Music)

"I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Work, Care, Faults, Hard work, Singing)

"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Idea, Respect)

"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Sympathy)

"I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Family)

"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Food, People)

"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Women, Work, Stability)

"I just can't read music."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Music)

"I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Hair)