Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
More Quotes from Dorothy Fields:
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.Dorothy Fields
A rhyme doesn't make a song.
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 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
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
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