Sometimes 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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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The 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.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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