Tom Lehrer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Tom Lehrer quotes and sayings page 4 (96 year old musician). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 47 we have for him.
“The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.”
“San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.”
“I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.”
“I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.”
“I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.”
“It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.”
“I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.”
“I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.”
“When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'”
“When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.”
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