Al Yankovic Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

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I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

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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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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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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 decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

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

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My wife went off with Elvis.

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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

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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'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

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

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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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