Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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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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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 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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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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