So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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