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"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."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it."
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