If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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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’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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