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.
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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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 have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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