So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see 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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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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