Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
AL YANKOVICYou can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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