Musical Lyricist Gifts

"You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, don't mess with mister inbetween!"

Bob Dylan Fan Club

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

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

Jeff Tweedy caricature.

Blues artis's daily list

"I always thought love made the world go round."

Fuzz - Fuzzy writes a song with a positive message.

"Yes, 'the lion sleeps tonight', I know the tune, but it means it's had a good feed during the day, which is not really a good thing..."

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

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

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

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

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

"Yes, I know, Munger. But Wallace Stevens didn't scribble his damned verses on company time."

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

"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.'"

"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."

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

'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.'

'This next one I wrote myself. It's about pain, misery and heartbreak, until I finally wised up and dumped him.'

"Yeah, most people are surprised when they learn I'm actually a lyricist."

He's disappointed --- He came here because he thought the song went "New York, New York, it's an elephant town."

'Uh, Jake, I believe that should be 'and the skies are not cloudy all day,' not 'and we pour ourselves more Chardonnary.''

Noel Coward

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

'Moon, June...'

"Moon….June Croon….Loon… …Tycoon"

"Since when did my opinions become 'riffs'?"

Musical pill box

Dolores O'Riordan

'I know.. Let's write a song all about the evils of material wealth. After all, that last one netted us a bloody fortune!'

Class Reunion. Back in school, Ernie was the world's biggest Beatle fan! For the reunion, he's written songs about some of our classmates. There's a cheesemaker

How to play violin while reading a book...

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