As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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I 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.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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