In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
AL YANKOVICI love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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 dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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