Lyric Virtuoso Mugs

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

"Here's another one written in E minor and in case you haven't guessed by now, it's the only chord I know."

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

"Whine and cheezed party."

"Eventually the instrument becomes an extension of your body."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

"Nobody listens to me complain quite like you do."

'He's the bluesman's bluesman.'

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Like many kids, Bobby had an imaginary friend. Unfortunately for Bobby, he was a critic.

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

Giuseppe Verdi

"You have to practice because if the Devil challenges you to a fiddle contest and wins, he gets your soul."

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

War Heros Variety Night (playing a tune on his medals).

Tragedy! When the feeling's gone and you can't go on.

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

Hacksaw Violin.

Trying cellos, too big!

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

"...and are you, Jessica, committed to this bit?"

What your guitar says about you.

". . . and do you, John, give up your smug air of bemused detachment for the demands of marriage?"

'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.'