Tom Lehrer Quotes
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
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First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.
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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'
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A good song is a good song.
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We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.
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You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.
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They said no future forget it You came from the wrong side of town I said don't listen don't let it Let it bring you down Make you wear a frown.
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We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
