Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
AL YANKOVICI mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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