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" A rhyme doesn't make a song. "
Rhyme
Song
Make
" A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. "
Come
Always
Tease
" 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. "
Back
Ahead
Unhappy
" A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. "
Interested
Move
Work
" Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? "
Write
Music
Poem
" 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. "
Story
Together
End
" 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. "
Talent
Great
Men
" I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. "
Good
Back
Care
" If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show. "
Successful
You
Audience
" In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it. "
Women
Just
Work
" 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. "
You
Write
Purpose
" Love is the reason you were born. "
Reason
Were
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. "
Reading
Play
Me
" No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. "
Happen
Out
Words
" The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. "
Wife
Man
Society
" 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. "
Women
Lawyers
Lady
" 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. "
Him
Song
Push
" 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. "
Right
Want
Cry
" Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression. "
Need
Write
You
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