How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICNows 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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 think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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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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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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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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