Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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After 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.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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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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