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 YANKOVICI don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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’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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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