How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICMaybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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 I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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