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.
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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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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 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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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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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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