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.
AL YANKOVICIt 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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