Al Yankovic Quotes, Dad Quotes, Father Quotes

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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I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

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

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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

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

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

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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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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

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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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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

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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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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

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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. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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