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Dinah Shore
American
Actress
About the author
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,
American
Actress
#Father
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.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#Chance
#Trouble
My tastes are eclectic.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Love
#Country
#Jazz
I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#World
#Fire
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#Today
#Women
I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#Time
#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.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#Death
#Achievement
Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#People
And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Money
#Father
#Advice
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Popular
#Country
#Writing
#Music
#Country music
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
Dinah Shore,
American
Actress
#Men
#Women
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,
American
Actress
#Music
#Value