Tom Lehrer Quotes - Page 3

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• I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

  Tom Lehrer

  Believe, Hands, Heard

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

  Tom Lehrer

  Stupid, Silly, Answers

  Song: New Math, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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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.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

  Tom Lehrer

  Eight, Two, Missing

  Song: New Math, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Style, Tunes

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

  Tom Lehrer

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

  Tom Lehrer

  Hands, Trying, Steps

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• You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

  Tom Lehrer

  Dancing, Tango, Raises

  Song: The Masochism Tango

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• If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

  Tom Lehrer

  Commitment, Squares, Two

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• If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

  Tom Lehrer

  Stars, Sound, Buying Something

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

  Tom Lehrer

  Nice, Moral, Manners

  "Song: "Be Prepared"". 1953.

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• The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Records, Would Be

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one
  another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.

  Tom Lehrer

  Thinking, People, Shut Up

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• Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

  Tom Lehrer

  Who Cares, Care, Rockets

  "Wernher von Braun" (song) (1965)

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• I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

  Tom Lehrer

  Lips, Ache, Dear

  Song: The Masochism Tango

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• The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

  Tom Lehrer

  Shepherds, Bombs, Politics

  Song: Who's Next?, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.

  Tom Lehrer

  Humorous, Angel, Heard

  Song: A Christmas Carol, Album: More of Tom Lehrer

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• I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, New York, Ridiculous

  "I wanna go back to Dixie". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1960.

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• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Fun, Two

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Army, Rooms

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

  Tom Lehrer

  Prayer, Mean, Nineteen

  Song: Mlf Lullaby, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

  Tom Lehrer

  Night, Temperament, Performers

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

  Tom Lehrer

  Together, World, Potatoes

  Song: We Will All Go Together when We Go

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• And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

  Tom Lehrer

  Achievement, Bereavement, Comforting

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• In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

  Tom Lehrer

  Success, Secret, Research

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