Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
AL YANKOVICSo then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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 have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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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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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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