I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
AL YANKOVICHe put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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