As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
AL YANKOVICIn a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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 watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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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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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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 has to work on its own merit.
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