As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
AL YANKOVICPeople that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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