Dorothy Fields American Quotations

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.

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

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

We're confined to a framework of music, and I feel that the words can be poetic, but I wouldn't say poetry in the strictest sense.

The audience, going along with the story, knows when the song is stuck in, feels it, resents it and can't enjoy it, and the song fails.

I do think song writing is a man's game. It requires push, energy, movement, mixing; it is a field that is and has been dominated by men.