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.
AL YANKOVICI can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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