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.
AL YANKOVICRight now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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,
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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