Quotes by 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.
• Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
• 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.
• 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.
• My tastes are eclectic.
• 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.
• I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
• I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
• I can't remember a time when I wasn't 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.
• Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
• 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.'