Top 19 Quotes by 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.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

Love is the reason you were born.

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.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

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.