Kate Smith

“Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.”

“Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.”

“I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.”

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

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

“My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.”

“It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.”

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

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

“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.”