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.

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.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.