There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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About 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.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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