You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVICThat’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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