I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
AL YANKOVICAs a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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I 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!
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