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"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."
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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
"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."
"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."
"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."
"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."
"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
"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."
"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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