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.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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