Al Yankovic on grip
Al Yankovic173 quotes“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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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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
Al YankovicAl Yankovic My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic One 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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More on grip
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.
Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade I learned through the ‘Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee,’ the cartoon. Back then, it was 1970 or ’69 when it came out. Learned the grip that way and everything in the cartoon… So that’s kind of how it all started for me.
John DalyJohn Daly Prayer releases the grip of Satan’s power; prayerlessness increases it.
Alan RedpathAlan Redpath Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.
Adam YoungAdam Young The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
Meher BabaMeher Baba I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman’s – a four-on then four-off type of deal.
Aaron WatsonAaron Watson A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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