I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
AL YANKOVICOn the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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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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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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