Freberg Quotes

#1. 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.

Stan Freberg

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

Stan Freberg

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

Stan Freberg

#4. 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.

Stan Freberg

#5. Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Christian Smith

#6. I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

Stan Freberg

#7. If I sit in carriage D, which I usually do, and the train stops at this signal, which it almost always does, I have a perfect view into my favourite trackside house: number fifteen.

Paula Hawkins

#8. I believe all of my talents come from the Lord. All of my talents are God-given - that's how I was able to write music without any professional musical training.

Stan Freberg

#9. Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is ...

Stan Freberg

#10. I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

David Rockefeller

#11. 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.

Stan Freberg

#12. If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else? ... We're all consumers ... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

Stan Freberg

#13. Black is a great color!!! it sets off your wig!

Stan Freberg

#14. I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.

Stan Freberg

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

Stan Freberg

#16. Most folks call them green onions, but
they're really scallions.

Stan Freberg

#17. The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

Stan Freberg

#18. For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.

Daniel Henderson

#19. Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

Stan Freberg

#20. Because of language, the thoughts we record today might reach into the future to influence the thinking of people not yet born.

Laura A. Freberg

#21. I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible.

Marcus Sedgwick

#22. You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

Stan Freberg

#23. All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!

Stan Freberg