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.
AL YANKOVICPeople never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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