Dinah Shore Quotes & Sayings

“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.'”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”