And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.
Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
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.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
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.
I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight.
I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
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.
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.
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.
My tastes are eclectic.
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.'
They were looking for a singer for his national radio show, Time to Smile, and Eddie's daughter asked me to come in and audition.
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
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.
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.
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.
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
Dinah Shore was the first woman to host her own variety show.
Dinah has 9 Emmy awards for her television work. From 1954 to 1975.
Dinah had a slight limp from polio as a child which never deterred her from playing sports like tennis and golf.
In 1992 Dinah was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Orlando, Florida.
Dinah traveled to Europe in 1943 performing for troops and in France they named a bridge after her.
In 1943 Dinah was signed to host her own radio show, "Call to Music."
Her first hit recording was "Yes, My Darling Daughter."
Dinah made her television debut on the Ed Wynn show in 1950.
On May 16, 1966 Dinah appeared as one of the award presenters on The Best on Record (NBC). Hosted by Bob Hope.
On March 2nd and March 9th 1967, Dinah hosted (CBS) Coliseum special titled "Moscow State Circus".
Dinah Shore during an episode of her Dinah! series, had the misfortune of interviewing the comedian Andy Kaufman in his Tony Clifton guise. He took deliberate offense at her questions and eventually tipped a pan of eggs over her head. This happened live on the air in front of a huge TV audience and Shore's producers cut to an impromptu commercial as Kaufman was escorted out of the studio.