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.
AL YANKOVICWhen I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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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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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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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