Classic from the Blues Brothers - "Good night - you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here!"From Tom Waits, Spider Robinson, T-Bone Stankus etal : I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy. (to me, a wonderful variation of that line)
From Liam Clancy to an audience - "Why don't we all join hands and contact the living?"
From Jeff Howell (local Orlando performer): "This next song is my favorite damn song!" (spoken before launching into about a third of the songs in each set.)
also from Jeff: "This is a song I wrote by the Beatles." (or by Jim Croce or whoever wrote the song.)
W.C. Fields when an ignorant fool asked if he'd like his whiskey with water: "Water ugnh! Fish fuck in it!"
"This is one of your favorite songs and I hope it's one of mine."
pax yall