Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
AL YANKOVICIt’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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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