Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVICSo that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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’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 make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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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’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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