#ma

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#decimal #just #like #use #you

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#fellow man #hate #i #know #like

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#because #exception #for the people #free #friends

And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course, all the elements come together to make a great record. But there's always one standout. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#baby #bass #come #course #element

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#came #cooperative #diva #donna #elvis

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#attracted #bass #became #being #bought

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#emotion #energy #i #i wish #land

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#acoustic guitar #baltimore #be a man #been #blues

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#axioms #cannot #definition #finally #given