Dinah Shore

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

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. ”

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.' ”

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. ”

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. ”