I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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