You fake something until you’re good at 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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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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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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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