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.
AL YANKOVICI’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see 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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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.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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