Dinah Shore quotes

Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality widely admired for her warm voice and charming stage presence. A major star during the Big Band era and a popular television host, she won numerous Emmy and Grammy Awards throughout her career. She remains celebrated as a trailblazer for women in the entertainment industry. Here are 13 of her quotes:

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

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

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

Dinah Shore

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

Dinah Shore

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

Dinah Shore

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

Dinah Shore

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.

Dinah Shore

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

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

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

Dinah Shore

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