Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fieldswas an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her most well known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight", "A Fine Romance", "On the Sunny Side of the Street", "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,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth15 July 1905
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet, To the sunny side of the street.
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.
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.
Love is the reason you were born.
Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.
No matter where I run, I meet myself there.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
Love is the reason for it all.
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.