Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVICSo I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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’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 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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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