Dorothy Fields Quotes

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

Dorothy Fields

Optimistic, Feet, Worry

"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)

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Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

Dorothy Fields

Feet, Sides, Sunny

"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)

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Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

Dorothy Fields

Dust, Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off

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No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Dorothy Fields

Running, Matter

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Love is the reason for it all.

Dorothy Fields

Love Is, Reason

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

Dorothy Fields

Writing, Expression, Needs

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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.

Dorothy Fields

Crazy, Writing, Trying

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The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Dorothy Fields

Mom, Mother, Men

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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.

Dorothy Fields

Doctors, Careers, Lawyer

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I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love.

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Love, Romantic Love, Mood

"I'm in the Mood for Love" (song) (1935)

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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.

Dorothy Fields

Song, Moving, Unhappy

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

Dorothy Fields

Successful, Stories, Shows

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Love is the reason you were born.

Dorothy Fields

Love Is, Reason, Born

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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.

Dorothy Fields

Song, Writing, Plot

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A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

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Song, Writing, Giving

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A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Dorothy Fields

Song, Rhyming, Rhyme

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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.

Dorothy Fields

Song, Art, Writing

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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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Song, Tease

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

Dorothy Fields

People, Shows

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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.

Dorothy Fields

Moving, Should Have, Milieu

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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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Book, Ties, Together

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

Dorothy Fields

Writing, Two, Long

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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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Song, Falling In Love, Fit

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Born: July 15, 1905
Died: March 28, 1974
Occupation: Librettist
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