I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
AL YANKOVICI enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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