Al Yankovic Quotes

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• I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
• You fake something until you're good at it.
• If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.
• If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
• So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It…
• 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.
• There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
• I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!
• 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…
• People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
• 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…
• People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
• What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or…
• When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
• Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
• If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

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