What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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