You fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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One 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.
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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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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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