41 Quotes by Dorothy Fields

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.

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

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

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

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.

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.

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

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