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 YANKOVICAfter that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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