Lyrical Thinker Gifts

'The country just may not be ready for patriotic rap.'

"I've got rhythm, music, my girl - check. But somehow I still want more."

Unforgettable, that's what you are... Gnat King Cole

Shakespeare was bisexual

'Never mind singing it in rap... a simple 'I do' will suffice.'

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

'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''

'Larry liked to crack the window before bed.'

"This next song is just a song. Try not to read anything into it."

'Actually, I don't get out much. I spend most of my time alone, writing lyrical novels celebrating nature and the interconnectedness of all living things!'

'That's the new guy. He writes our 'shuck-and-jive' press releases.'

Shakespeare working on his "author's bio"

Andre Gide.

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

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

"What can you do with him?"

"As Tom gets nostalgic to Don McLean's 'American Pie,' baby Charles utters his first words... Too long."

The Modern Godot

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

"This is my own arrangement...of a song I wrote...about me."

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

A rose is a rose is a rose

'You are in court today, so I've got to take you into make up.'

"I don't know how this ends. . ."

"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."

It's not a figure of speech - this is the corporate ladder.

The Greatest Mime in the World

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

"Because it's got a goddam crack in it, that's why."

"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.'"

Well, yes, it's a free library, but...