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

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

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"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."

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"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."

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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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"A rhyme doesn't make a song."

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

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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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"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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