I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I wish I was better looking.
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