Word Salad Lyrics/Quotes

"Enemy lasagna Robust below wax Semiautomatic aqua Accompany slacks"

- Lemon Demon, Word Disassociation

""In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie With the plastic eyeballs and spraypaint the vegetables...""

- Beck, "Loser"

""Normalized the signal and you're banging on freon Paleolithic eon Put the fake goatee on""

- Soul Coughing, "Sugar Free Jazz"

""Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday Man, you've been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, Goo goo ga joob""

- The Beatles, "I Am the Walrus"

""Interior crocodile alligator I drive a Chevrolet movie theater""

- Chip tha Ripper, "S.L.A.B. Freestyle"

""It is now time to make it unclear To write off lines that don't make sense""

- Nirvana, "On a Plain"

"Does it hurt when 'glossolalia coats your skin?' Where can I find a nice new pair of 'unkempt nourishment plows?' What are 'castrating kisses stalactite stems?' I certainly don't know, and neither do the members of Mars Volta who wrote these lyrics."

- Dustin Glick, The Five Most Unintentionally Funny Albums of 2006

""Chickity China the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin' Watchin X-Files with no lights on, we're dans la maison I hope the Smoking Man's in this one Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic Like Sting I'm Tantric Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy Like Kurosawa I make mad films Okay I don't make films But if I did they'd have a samurai Gonna get a set of better clubs Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing""

- Barenaked Ladies, "One Week"

""I must have played this song like 3000 times in concert. And after all this time, I still have no idea what the fuck it's about.""

- Peter Buck talking about the song "Orange Crush"

"Bernie Taupin has the ability to use allegory and irony in his lyrics to express profound truths about the human condition ... He also has the ability to write lyrics that make no fucking sense at all..."

- Cracked.com on Elton John

""We pretty much write these songs and let other people figure them out.""

- John Linnell

""I was trying to see if I could write a song made up entirely of palidromes ... I said, "This sounds like it means something, but it doesn't mean anything. [ Beat] It's a Bob Dylan song!""

- "Weird Al" Yankovic on the writing of his song "Bob", during a concert in Atlantic City, NJ, 16 March 2018