About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
AL YANKOVICAbout four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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