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Song Quotes by Dorothy Fields
- 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…
- A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
- 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 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…
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- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
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