Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVICOne 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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