Al Yankovic Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Guy Quotes

I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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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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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

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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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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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

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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

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I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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