Dinah Shore Quotes

• Why should unmarried women be discriminated against – unmarried men are not.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• My tastes are eclectic.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t singing.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.’

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Dinah Shore (14)

Birth:	29th February, 1916
Death:	24th February, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer, Television Personality

About

Dinah Shore was born in Winchester, Tennessee. She was an American singer and actress. She was an award-winning television personality known for her string of TV shows, including Dinah!, Dinah's Place, and Dinah and Friends. Recording success took a little longer, but in the early 1940s she began to release hits such as "Jim" and "Blues in the Night." She worked with Gypsy Rose Lee in Belle of the Yukon and was seen in Till the Clouds Roll By, a biographical musical about Jerome Kern. Shore's last talk show, A Conversation with Dinah, aired on the Nashville Network from 1989 to 1991. One of television's most popular personalities, she won 10 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and a Golden Globe during her career.

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