"Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny……" — Tom Lehrer
"Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once."
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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer
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