Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVICSome 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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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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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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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 was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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After 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.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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