When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
AL YANKOVICAs my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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