Dictionary Quote by Dorothy Fields

Love is the reason you were born.

— Dorothy Fields

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

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

— Dorothy Fields

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

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

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

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

— Dorothy Fields

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

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

— Dorothy Fields

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

— Dorothy Fields

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

— Dorothy Fields

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

— Dorothy Fields