You don’t need to be defined by your job.
AL YANKOVICI can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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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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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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 say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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