I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
AL YANKOVICI’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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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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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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