"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."

Music, Song

8

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."

Exlpore more Music quotes

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

Jane Horrocks, English Actress

Music,

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Philosophy, Conscious, Mind

"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Infinite, Joy

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."

George Crumb, American Composer

Music, Composers, Diversity, Today

"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Love, Divine

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

Music, Hearing, Now, World

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

Music,

"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

Ville Valo, Finnish Musician

Music, People, Hate

"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

George Crumb, American Composer

Music, People, Countries, Interest

"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

Layne Staley, American Musician

Music, Photography, Writing

Explore more 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."

Help, Right, Want, Years

"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."

Time, Women, Work, People

"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."

Time, Women, Careers, Doctors

"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."

Love, Song

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

Success, Successful, Will

"Love is the reason you were born."

Love, Reason

"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."

Father, First, Play, Reading

"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."

Music, Song

"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."

Beginning, End

"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."

Men, Women, Talent, Poets