A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back,… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
