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.
AL YANKOVICDoing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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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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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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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 don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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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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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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