Al Yankovic Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Editors Quotes

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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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'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

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

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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

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I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. 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. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

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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'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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