Top 37 Dorothy Fields Quotes
#1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
Dorothy Fields
#2. Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
#3. Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
#4. Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
Dorothy Fields
#5. But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#6. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
Dorothy Fields
#7. No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
Dorothy Fields
#8. Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
Keith Richards
#9. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#10. In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
Dorothy Fields
#12. The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
Dorothy Fields
#13. If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
Dorothy Fields
#15. I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
John Milton
#16. A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
Dorothy Fields
#17. I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
Zinedine Zidane
#18. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#19. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#21. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#22. Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.
Dorothy Fields
#23. A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
Dorothy Fields
#24. One boy, one girl, two hearts beating wildly.
Tim McGraw
#25. The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
Terence McKenna
#26. More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.
Jerry Saltz
#27. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#28. I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
Dorothy Fields
#29. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#30. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#31. I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#32. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#34. 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.
Dorothy Fields
#36. Staff or anyone else - you. So I hope whatever information
Julie James
#37. Take a deep breath
Pick yourself up,
dust yourself off
Start all over again
And again and again and again.
May be easier said than done, but it can be done. Slowly but surely - and sometimes, not so surely, but with radical hope.
Step by precious step.Hour by hour.Day by day.
KERN JEROME FIELDS DOROTHY
