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Dorothy Fields Biography

Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight", "A Fine Romance", "On the Sunny Side of the Street", "Don't Blame Me", "Pick Yourself Up", "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "You Couldn't Be Cuter" Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, and Jimmy McHugh. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.

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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.

Come, Giving, Song, Tease, Writing

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Make, Rhyme, Rhyming, Song

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Matter, Meet, Run, Running

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.

Crazy, Easier, Specific, Trying, Write, Writing

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

Friends, Milieu, Moving, Should Have, Work

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

Hold, Shows, Stories, Story, Successful

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.

Careers, Doctors, Lady, Lawyer, Reason, Women

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.

Ahead, Audience, Moving, Song, Stalls, Unhappy

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.

Art, Field, Painters, Song, Talent, Writing

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

Feet, Leave, Optimistic, Street, Worry

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

Movie, People, Show, Shows, Work

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.

Book, Middle, Story, Tie, Ties, Together

Love is the reason you were born.

Born, Love, Love Is, Reason

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.

Love, Mood, Romantic Love, Simply

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

Breadwinner, Man, Men, Mom, Mother, Woman