Dorothy Fields Quotes

#1. We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

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#2. I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

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#3. Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

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#4. A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

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#5. There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

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#6. I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

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#7. A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

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#8. The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

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#9. No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

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#10. Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

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#11. Love is the reason you were born.

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#12. Love is the reason for it all.

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#13. Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

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#14. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

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#15. No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

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#16. My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

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#17. In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

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#18. Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

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#19. The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

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#20. If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

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#21. A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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#22. A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

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#23. I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

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#24. I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

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