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.
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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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