A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
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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.
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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.
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Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet, To the sunny side of the street.
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We're confined to a framework of music, and I feel that the words can be poetic, but I wouldn't say poetry in the strictest sense.
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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
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