I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
AL YANKOVICEver since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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