Quotes by Dorothy Fields

Dorothy Fields

A rhyme doesn’t make a song.

Rhyme

Rhyming

Song

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.

Giving

Song

Writing

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

Song

Tease

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.

Moving

Song

Unhappy

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

Milieu

Moving

Should Have

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

Long

Two

Writing

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Feet

Optimistic

Worry

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.

Book

Ties

Together

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.

Art

Song

Writing

I don’t care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Plot

Song

Writing

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Doctors

Dust

Dust Yourself Off

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Feet

Fit

Giving

Lawyer

Long

Love

Love Is

Matter

Men

Milieu

Mom

Mood

Mother

Moving

Needs

Optimistic

People

Pick Yourself Up

Plot

Reason

Rhyme

Rhyming

Romantic Love

Running

Should Have

Shows

Sides

Song

Stories

Successful

Sunny

Tease

Ties

Together

Trying

Two

Unhappy

Worry

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Quotes by Dorothy Fields

Dorothy Fields

A rhyme doesn’t make a song.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I don’t care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

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