If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVICI was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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