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.

Tom Lehrer

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• Care
• Poverty
• Injustice

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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.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Song

• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Care
  • Body
  • More

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Poverty
  • See

• 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.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• 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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Money
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

• 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!'

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Good
  • Song
  • Party

• The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?

  

  Britt Daniel
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Giving
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Winning
  • Voice
  • Blue

• If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Country
  • Honor

• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Care
  • Poverty