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,
AL YANKOVICIt doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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 want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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 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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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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