Al Yankovic Quotes

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Brother Children Hate Only Child Sister
Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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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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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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight
I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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