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 YANKOVICUntil you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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 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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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