I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
AL YANKOVICOne of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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