I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
AL YANKOVICI cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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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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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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