Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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 don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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