Dorothy Fields Quotes

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• No matter where I run, I meet myself there.
• Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.
• 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.
• I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
• 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…
• The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
• Love is the reason for it all.
• Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.
• A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
• Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
• 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…
• A rhyme doesn't make a song.
• 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;…
• A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
• In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
• If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

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