I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
AL YANKOVICI’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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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’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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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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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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