The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
AL YANKOVICI have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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