Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehreris an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. He is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and '60s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth9 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
certain front
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.'
promoting revealing
I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.
age age-and-aging american-musician consider mozart
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
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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.
food
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
francisco kids san
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.
awarded became henry nobel obsolete peace
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
high loved
I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
whom
I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.
answer rather understand understanding
In the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you are doing rather than to get the right answer
fellow proud soldier
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
religious people catholic
Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs, I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.
thinking hard
Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.