Author: Dorothy Fields

Quotes

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.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

- Dorothy Fields

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

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

- Dorothy Fields

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.

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.

- Dorothy Fields

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

Love is the reason you were born.

Love is the reason you were born.

- Dorothy Fields

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