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Favorite Dorothy Fields Quotes

1. "The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother." ~ Dorothy Fields
2. "A rhyme doesn't make a song." ~ Dorothy Fields
3. "A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself." ~ Dorothy Fields
4. "A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out." ~ Dorothy Fields
5. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?" ~ Dorothy Fields
6. "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
7. "In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it." ~ Dorothy Fields
8. "Love is the reason you were born." ~ Dorothy Fields
9. "No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you." ~ Dorothy Fields
10. "Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression." ~ Dorothy Fields
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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

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