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.
AL YANKOVICIn 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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