So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
AL YANKOVICIn the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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