The audience, going along with the story, knows when the song is stuck in, feels it, resents it and can't enjoy it, and the song fails.
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If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.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
Love is the reason you were born.
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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.
Dorothy Fields
Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
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