If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
AL YANKOVICThe window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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 not they had a good seat?
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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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In 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.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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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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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.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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