Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
AL YANKOVICEvery night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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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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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I 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.
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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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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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