I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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 an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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