top of page
.png){kind=small}
"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Word quotes
"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
Word,
"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."
"Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray."
Explore more quotes by Dorothy Fields
"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."
"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."
"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
"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."
"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
"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."
bottom of page