So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICI guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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