Kate Smith famous quotes

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

#Loyal #Middle #Capacity

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
-- Kate Smith

#Hockey #Ice Cream #Chocolate

This nation loves singing and loves acting.
-- Kate Smith

#Sight #Singing #Acting

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

#Hard Work #Sight #Singing

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
-- Kate Smith

#Hair #Fats

I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc.
-- Kate Smith

#Dog #Home #Mean

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

#Family #Giving Up #Goes On

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
-- Kate Smith

#Song #Years #Amazed

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
-- Kate Smith

#Home #Groups #Towns

I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
-- Kate Smith

I just can't read music.
-- Kate Smith

I learn my songs by ear.
-- Kate Smith

#Song #Ears

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

#Mood #Ballads

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

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Stories

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

#Weight #Obvious

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.
-- Kate Smith

#Work #Feet #Nurse

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.
-- Kate Smith

#Success #Done #World

I have never known stage-fright at any time.
-- Kate Smith

#Fear #Stage #Stage Fright

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
-- Kate Smith

#Prejudice #Opinion #Defeat

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
-- Kate Smith

#Second Chance #Firsts #Stage

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
-- Kate Smith

#Singing #Broadway #Daydreaming

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
-- Kate Smith

#Sympathy #Heart #Thrill

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
-- Kate Smith

#Hair #Light #Singing

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

#Respect #Ideas #Composer

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
-- Kate Smith

#Political #Should #Controversy

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
-- Kate Smith

#Country #New York #Car

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
-- Kate Smith

#War #Voice #Purpose

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
-- Kate Smith

#Harder

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
-- Kate Smith

#People #Training #Example

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
-- Kate Smith

#Voice #Perfect #Lucky

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
-- Kate Smith

#Groups #Motive #Raises

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
-- Kate Smith

#Actors #Stage

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
-- Kate Smith

#America #Presidential #Speech

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
-- Kate Smith

#Years #White #Nurse

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
-- Kate Smith

#Careers #Lucky #Critics

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
-- Kate Smith

#Intelligent #Analysis #Adherence

It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.
-- Kate Smith

#Effort #Trying #Weakness