Art & Creativity Quote by Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore is drawing a bright line between craft and spectacle, and you can hear a seasoned entertainer quietly bristling at the culture changing under her feet. Rock, in her telling, doesn t just introduce a new sound; it rearranges the hierarchy of what counts. If lyrics and melody become "less important", then music is no longer primarily a written, singable thing you carry home in your head. It becomes texture, volume, attitude, performance. That shift can feel like liberation if you grew up on blues and R&B, but to a vocalist from the Tin Pan Alley and big-band ecosystem, it reads as a loss of the very grammar of the art.

The shrewd move is her final insistence: "they are music". It s not nostalgia so much as a claim of ownership, a refusal to let innovation redefine the category. Shore isn t arguing that rock is bad; she s arguing that rock is changing the criteria, and that scares anyone whose identity is tied to the older criteria. There s also a little professional self-defense here. In the mid-century pop world, a singer could be a star by making a melody legible and a lyric emotionally precise. Rock s rise decentralizes that power, elevating the band, the beat, the amplified persona.

Her worry about whether lyrics and melodies will "regain" value reveals the subtext: taste isn t just preference, it s an economy. When the market shifts, what we call "music" shifts with it.