Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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