Dorothy Fields Quotes & Sayings
19 most famous Dorothy Fields quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an American musician who passed away on 28 March, 1974.
“The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.”
“No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.”
“A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.”
“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.”
“A rhyme doesn't make a song.”
“A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.”
“Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.”
“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.”
“Love is the reason you were born.”
“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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