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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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