So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICI can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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