If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
Tom LehrerIn my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
Tom LehrerThe audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
Tom LehrerI 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