Love is the reason you were born.
More Quotes from Dorothy Fields:
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.Dorothy Fields
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
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
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
Dorothy Fields
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.
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
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