It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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It 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.
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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 just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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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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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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