"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."

Expression

"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

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"

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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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"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 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."

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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."

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"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."

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"Love is the reason you were born."

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