I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
AL YANKOVICI think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I 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.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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