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Dorothy Fields

"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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"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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"A rhyme doesn't make a song."
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"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."
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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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"If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show."
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"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."
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"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."
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