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.
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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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