In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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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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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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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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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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