Al Yankovic Quotes, People Quotes, Leader Quotes

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

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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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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'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

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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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

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It's hard to force creativity and humor.

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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

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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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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

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

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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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

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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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