Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVICSometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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.
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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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