Al Yankovic Quotes, Years Quotes, Issues Quotes

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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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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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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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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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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So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

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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. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

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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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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

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I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.

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

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