Dorothy Fields Quotes

A rhyme doesn't make a song.
Dorothy Fields

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
Dorothy Fields

Work, Friends, Himself

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

Mom, Society, Mother

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

Song, Tease, Squeeze

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.
Dorothy Fields

Place, Show, Song

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
Dorothy Fields

Music, Long, Two

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.
Dorothy Fields

Good, End, Everything

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 lower in the field of song writing.
Dorothy Fields

Women, Great, Men

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

Good, Care, Song

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
Dorothy Fields

Successful, Show, Story

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
Dorothy Fields

Work, Time, Women

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 to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
Dorothy Fields

Money, Crazy, Trying

Love is the reason you were born.
Dorothy Fields

Love, Reason, Born

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
Dorothy Fields

Good, Father, Saying

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

Words, Happen, Give

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; maybe it'll fit in another show.
Dorothy Fields

Love, Him, Another

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.
Dorothy Fields

Time, Women, Enough

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 to cry, but I can't help it.
Dorothy Fields

Help, Cry, Hopefully

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
Dorothy Fields

Write, Expression

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 15, 1905

Died: March 28, 1974

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