It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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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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