People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
AL YANKOVICSome 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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