I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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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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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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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