Author: Kate Smith

Quotes

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

- Kate Smith

I just can't read music.

I just can't read music.

- Kate Smith

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

- Kate Smith

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

- Kate Smith

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

- Kate Smith

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

- Kate Smith

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

- Kate Smith

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

- Kate Smith

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

- Kate Smith

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