Dorothy Fields Quotes

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Most of the time, you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

There's definitely been some songs in the past that we've put out, and it was purely us going, 'Okay, we think radio will play this. We think this will be a hit. This will be big for the show,' and all this stuff. But it's like, do you really believe in it?

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.