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.
AL YANKOVICIt becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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.
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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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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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 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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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