A rhyme doesn't make a song.
More Quotes from Dorothy Fields:
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
I do think song writing is a man's game. It requires push, energy, movement, mixing it is a field that is and has been dominated by men.
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, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
Dorothy Fields
A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
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 far lower in the field of song writing.
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 have the time for careers.
Dorothy Fields
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