21 Quotes by Stan Freberg

When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.

Most folks call 'em green onions, but they're really scallions!

Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again!

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.

Say that was a nice number, you kids get a pretty good sound out of them moccasins!

A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.