A Quote by Phil Ochs

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

Phil Ochs

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Bruce Goose Lenny Lines Loose Mother Mother Goose Stealing

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Phil Ochs
American - Musician
December 19, 1940 - April 9, 1976

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.

Joe Rogan

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

Billy Connolly

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

Billy Connolly

I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

Jethro Tull

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Gyorgy Ligeti

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

Lenny Bruce

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.