10 inspirational tom lehrer quotes on success

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Always predict the worst, and you’ll be hailed as a prophet.
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.
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.
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.
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
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.
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.
I’m very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I’m pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say ‘hmm’, for example.