Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICBuy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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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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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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