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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.

Al Yankovic

Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
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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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Anyone Around Many Superstar
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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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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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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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