My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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