Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
AL YANKOVICAfter 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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