Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs Quotes

“Probably the most violently hated of the weenie songs cited in the survey was “Sometimes When We Touch,” sung in a very emotional manner by Dan Hill, who sounds as though he’s having his prostate examined by Captain Hook.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

“I love you period. Do you love me question mark? Please please exclamation point I want to hold you in parentheses. These lyrics prompted Jeannine M. San Giovanni to write: “This song makes me sick to my colon. I’d like to kick the author in his asterisk.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

“What, exactly, do I mean by the term weenie music? I mean “The kind of sniveling, pouty, hypersensitive, self-absorbed song, usually performed by males, that makes you want to pick up the singer by his pencil neck and shake him until he stops.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

“Well. You think Salman Rushdie got into trouble. It turns out that Neil Diamond has a great many serious fans out there, and virtually every one of them took the time to send me an extremely hostile, spittle-flecked letter.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs