Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Dinah Shore

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.

American - Actress | February 29, 1916 - February 24, 1994

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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.

Dinah Shore

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

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.

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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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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

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

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

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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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My tastes are eclectic.

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

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

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

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I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Dinah Shore

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

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It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

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I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.

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I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

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Trouble is part of your life

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Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

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Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

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It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

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Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Dinah Shore

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