I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
AL YANKOVICThe irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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 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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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