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.
AL YANKOVICSome people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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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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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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