Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
AL YANKOVICNot 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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’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.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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