It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.
I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.
The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.
