People Quote by Tom Lehrer Download Open image “The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.” — Tom Lehrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Reason Writing Written
Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing. — LP Copy Share Image
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. — Bill Haley Copy Share Image
People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world -… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
