Dorothy Fields Quotations

Love is the reason you were born.

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.

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

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.

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

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

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.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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.

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