Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
AL YANKOVICEver since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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