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.
AL YANKOVICGot a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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