I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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