Art Quote by Al Yankovic

My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I…

— Joel Grey

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene…

— Ringo Starr

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

— Max Tundra

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

— Bryan Batt

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.

— Mel Brooks

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about…

— George Clooney

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the…

— Domhnall Gleeson

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

— Martin Fry

Mad World' was easy for me to sing because I could relate to Roland's lyrics. We were both the middle of three sons and…

— Curt Smith

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

— Michael Bolton

There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank…

— Rick Moranis

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

— Robert Davi