Lyric Lover Gifts

"If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?"

Pub Quiz: 'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

'Darlin', what's an adjective for a two-timin', heart-breakin' outlaw that rhymes with iPod?'

'...when all at once I saw a bunch, a bunch of golden daffodils...no, it still doesn't sound right.'

Pandora's Music Box

"Actually, I'm a singer-songwriter bird."

'Here's one I didn't write... I never learned... and can't play.'

"It's the poet in him trying to get out."

'Every time I manage to learn the second verse of a song, I forget the first one.'

Band alternating between whiney and angry songs.

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

'The problem with being a protest singer today is trying to fit 'quantitative easing' into a chorus.'

'First I'll do some covers, then I'll play some derivative, cliche-ridden original material.'

Lovebird and the Song Birds

'Here's a song about a girl that seemed a lot less creepy when we wrote it 34 years ago.'

George Frederic Handel tries to write lyrics for his 'Royal Music For Fireworks.'

"Is it copyright violation if I plagiarize a plagiarized song?"

"Can you make up a story based on my favorite Taylor Swift song?"

"You have the case of the blues, Mississippi Red, but fortunately they're treatable with women, Cadillacs and big diamond rings."

The day the music finally died

"I'm on the range, but I'm not home on the range."

Christine McVie

"Wait, so his first whole sentence was 'I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day'?!"

"Moon….June Croon….Loon… …Tycoon"

"I thought I shot you in Reno."

"You make me feel like a paranoid woman..."

"I feel stupid and contagious"

Leonard Cohen calls his landlord

"Of course you forgot the words. It's in our DNA."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"You won't believe it. I have that stupid song stuck in my head again."

"Like Bob Dylan said, 'You don't know what you've got til it's gone."

The Very Best of JOHN DOE

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