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.
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A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.Dorothy Fields
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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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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.
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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.
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If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
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