I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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