Tom Lehrer Quotes

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Tom Lehrer

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 9, 1928

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Tom Lehrer

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

Tom Lehrer

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

Tom Lehrer

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Tom Lehrer

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

Tom Lehrer