One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
AL YANKOVICI’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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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