By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
AL YANKOVICI know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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