It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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