Al Yankovic Quotes, Kind Quotes, Motivated Quotes

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

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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

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

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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

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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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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

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

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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

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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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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

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

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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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