There is something about the creative process… which is that you can’t talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you’re never really saying what happened… it’s a sort of happy accident.

New York, New York, – a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.
BETTY COMDEN

Batteries Country Towns
You sort of have to believe that, don’t you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.
BETTY COMDEN

Happen Something Sort
[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working.
BETTY COMDEN

Believe Creativity Long
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
BETTY COMDEN

Answers Nine Ninety Want
Broadway’s not what it used to be.
BETTY COMDEN

Broadway Used
There are long periods when nothing happens, and it’s just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing’s wasted, even those long days of staring at one another.
BETTY COMDEN

Disheartening Nothing Starting
There is something about the creative process… which is that you can’t talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you’re never really saying what happened… it’s a sort of happy accident.
BETTY COMDEN

Creative Creativity Thinking

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