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.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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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 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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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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