My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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 do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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