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.
AL YANKOVICI start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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