“Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once.” ThinkingWayWantReasonSongStuffHeardJokes Author:Tom Lehrer
“We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.” WorldChildrenBookSongRightsDirectorsJokesPerformancesOur ChildrenOriginalsLibraryRadioTunesPlotImperfectionPermissionBorrowedCopyrightHummingChildren BookChildrens Book Author:Lawrence Lessig
“The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.” CharacterSongJokes Author:Randy Newman
“What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.” IdeasFactsSongDiesLanguageEasyMoralJokesReflectionWitCharacteristicsLatterSentimentsContrastAphorismPreciseSonnetEpigramsManageable Author:William Matthews
“Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.” DoeHas BeensTogetherSongGamesQualitySpecialTelevisionDependsActivityMembersJokesFamiliarContributionRitualDominationFamily Life Author:Marie Winn
“A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingStatesSeemsHappensSongEnjoySleepLordOur LivesJokesBirdMereWorriedGreat MenSunriseOur LordLive For OthersBird Song Author:C. S. Lewis
“I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is inspired or creates something, to write a joke or a song, that's like the God-like part of a person.” ThinkingWritingPersonsArtistSongPayJokesInspiredComplimentCompliments You Author:Dave Chappelle