I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
AL YANKOVICHe died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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 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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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