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.
Kate Smith

Work, Women, Greater

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, Everything, Give

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

Done, Training, Point

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

Working, Last, Dying

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

Hair, Fat, Sing

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, Sometimes, Between

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

Chance, Second, Stage

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

Political, Keep, Public

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

Car, Country, Around

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

Money, Women, War

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

God, Before, America

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

Music, Home, Small

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

Perfect, Lucky, Voice

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

Else, Anyone, Harder

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

Off, Stage, Separate

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

Money, Group, Asked

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

Career, Lucky, Critics

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

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

Product, Advertised, Believed

I just can't read music.
Kate Smith

I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith

Learn, Songs, Ear

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

Work, Care, Hard

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

Respect, Idea, Shall

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

Big, Singing, Broadway

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

Time, Nothing, Chocolate

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: May 1, 1907

Died: June 17, 1986

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