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.
AL YANKOVICI dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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 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’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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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.
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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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