People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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 do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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