You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVICYou fake something until you’re good at it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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.
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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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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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 don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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